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Acer diabolicum |
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Devil Maple |
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Southern Europe,
Asia Minor and
Northern Africa |
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Opposite, simple, 5-lobed, 4 to 6 inches across, with
broad-ovate short-acuminate coarsely and remotely
dentate lobes, extremely silky-pubescent in youth, at
maturity the veins below densely so, interveinal areas
less so; petiole 1 3/4 to 2” long, pubescent, with milky
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Compactum’-A dwarf, multistemmed shrub of very close,
compact growth, 2 to 6’ high and usually broader
than high
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‘Eastleigh Weeping’-Pendulous habit
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‘Fastigiatum’-Upright form with corky branches, leaves
5-lobed, hairy beneath
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‘Postelense’-Leaves golden yellow when young gradually
changing to green, interesting in spring but losing the
yellow color with the advent of warm weather
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‘Queen Elizabeth-Small to medium sized tree, rounded
with a flat top, more vigorous than the species,
branches at 45° angle, leaves darker green and larger
than the species, fall color yellowish
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‘Schwerinii’-Leaves purple when unfolding,
finally turning green
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A.
diabolicum purpurascens - Red Devil Maple
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Used as a hedge in Europe and some of the famous
hedges at
Schônbrunn,
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