paperbark maple
acer griseum latin

The paperbark maple was not the giant that most maples are.

There was one paperbark maple I wanted to take home, but it was about 20 feet high.

This one is the delightful paperbark maple with its shiny cinnamon bark.

Paperbark maple is not the easiest specimen for nurseries to propagate.

Paperbark Maple is widely grown as an ornamental plant in temperate regions.

This one was a maple, the paperbark maple (Acer griseum).

Another curious shedder is the paperbark maple, which unfurls its bark in small strips of a shiny cinnamon color.

Although the paperbark maple (Acer griseum) cannot be praised for its flowers, it certainly can be for its bark.

Examples of trees with exfoliating bark are the paperbark maple and various species of Plane (Sycamore) and birch.

Fine, papery peelings constantly curl away from the bark of the paperbark maple (Acer griseum) and the river birch as their trunks expand in girth.

Farther on, across from the conservatory, is a striking paperbark maple, Acer griseum, which, as Ms. Boyle says, has the Cadillac of bark.

It is a trifoliate maple related to such other species as Manchurian Maple (Acer mandshuricum) and Paperbark Maple (Acer griseum).

Ernest "China" Wilson, the plant explorer from Gloucestershire who discovered paperbark maples, giant dogwood and Magnolia wilsonii, found the hardiest enkianthus clone in China in 1908.

While you are there, compiling your spring wish list, look at the winter bark of paperbark maple and lacebark pine; flowers of hardy camellia species, and the yellow flowers of winter jasmine.

A wall along the edge of the Memorial begins at a height of 3 inches and rises to a height of 71 inches, the ages of the youngest and oldest victim of the attack, and approximately 85 paperbark maple trees are planted on the memorial grounds.