Beauty maples have long won the hearts of the people, especially the fantastically beautiful they fall.How many poems dedicated to the poets of different times this tree, how many times he had been captured in the paintings of artists ... In Japan there are even catalogs and guides, from which you can learn the most beautiful places where maple grows.But it is not only famous for the beauty of this tree.Carpenters, for example, are very fond of it for the quality of the wood, and the folk healers - for the healing properties.This tree can meet in the forests of many countries.Botany has about one hundred and fifty species of maple.In Russia, there are more than ten varieties of this wonderful tree.This article will describe some types of plants.And you will learn about what the life expectancy of a maple.
description tree.Types
maple Maple is a very common type of tree.It can often be found in parks and gardens, as well as deciduous forests.But, despite this, this tree is not dominant, often maple grows in nature as "admixture" to different dominant tree species.Translated from the Latin word "maple" means "sharp".The name of the tree got a pointed shape of the leaves.Maple, with more than a hundred species found in Europe, Asia, North and South America, North Africa.
Maple is a dioecious plant with small pale light green flowers.The fruit maple tree are the two fused together "winged" seeds which after maturation break.It should be noted that the seed can germinate and maple at zero temperature, even if the surrounding snow.This is no longer observed in any of the tree.Despite the great diversity of these trees, all of them united by a wide angular-rounded shape with pointed projections.This form is called palmate-lobed.Autumn leaf color changes from green to bright orange, red, brown, yellow.Because of this riot of colors maple often referred to as a decorative plant species.
maples root system surface.Propagated He shoots and seeds.The tree is very photophilous, a special form of the crown and a folded piece of jewelry helps to collect the maximum amount of light.Also, heat-loving and drought-resistant tree, in the northern regions may suffer from severe frosts and harsh winters.More Maple has an amazing ability to "weep."Even with a small increase in humidity with petioles tree start falling drops ("tears").Next will be described in more detail, some types of maples.
Lifetime maple
believed that Maple lives of two hundred to three hundred years.Many scientists argue that the age of some species can reach five centuries!In our latitudes, the life expectancy of the maple is about a hundred years.But if the tree is growing in favorable conditions, this number could increase.
Maple holly
his second name - Maple Common.This type is most common in our country.It is a deciduous tree with a dense, pronounced spherical shape of the crown.As it reaches the height of twenty to thirty meters.The bark of young trees is very different from the old.At first it is smooth reddish-gray color, and the second - rough, gray color, cut up small cracks.Maple leaves ordinary pyatilopastnye wide enough (to eighteen centimeters in diameter).The surface of the glossy leaves.Blossoms Norway maple delicate yellow-green flowers, gathered into small florets.This type is very useful in terms of ecology, as the pair holds benzene, harmful heavy metal slurry, thereby purifying the air and improve the environment of the surrounding area.
Factors influencing the life expectancy of an ordinary maple
The lifespan of this type of maple is 200-300 years.But rare trees reach this age.On life expectancy maple influenced by many factors: pests, diseases, and even people.The most common pests are the ash shpanka maple, maple strelchatka, all kinds of herbivorous mites.On the trunks and branches of the apple parasitic zapyatovidnaya strelchatka, Coccidae acacia, willow Jose scale.Maple bud mite damage the buds of trees.On the trunks of maple trees are often found parasitic fungus tinder.The leaves of the tree damage dark brown and reddish-brown spot.It is necessary to consider another factor influencing how much growing maple.Lifespan tree often depends on the person.Since maple wood is very beautiful, with a unique pattern, then it is for the manufacture of expensive furniture and decorative materials.
Maple White
second name - Javor.This type of maple grows in the Caucasus and the Carpathians.Also found in Eastern countries and Western Europe.The tree is very tall and slender, has a dense globular-pyramidal crown.The bark of sycamore grayish-brown, with age gradually cracking, and under it you can see the young, lighter.The leaves are large, long reach twenty centimeters.Form leaves heart-shaped, five-blade.Flowering maple tree in mid to late May, the small, yellowish flowers.
silver maple
This tree reaches a height of forty meters - a real giant among maples.The annual increase is large enough - forty centimeters wide by fifty in height.Because it is easy to calculate how many years of growing maple to reach such huge sizes.Crown representative of the fauna at the powerful, delicate.Slightly drooping branches.The young maple bark light gray, young shoots are bright red.The leaves are large with five lobes, strongly dissected, bottom whitish or bluish.Autumn are light yellow.This type of maple hygrophilous, hardy, prefers open lighted areas.It is found in North America.
Manchurian Maple
This species grows in China and the Far East.The tree reaches a height of twenty meters.Crohn's delicate, rounded shape.Bark light gray with small cracks.The leaves are trifoliate, subtle and elegant.Leaf color changes three times a year: spring - red-orange in the summer - dark green and autumn - purple-red.Flowering maple large lemon-yellow flowers.The plant tolerates transplant, because the root system is shallow.
Maple Krismon King
Interestingly this kind of a maple leaf coloring.In the spring they are blood-red color, and in the summer becomes almost black.This tree is very popular among landscape designers.
Tatarian maple
Another name - chernoklen.The area of ​​distribution is quite wide - Western and Central Europe, Asia, Eastern Siberia, the central part of Russia.This type is a small tree or shrub, the height of which varies from two to ten meters.This tree looks very gentle - thin angular branches covered with fuzz, bark pale gray.The leaves are small - five to ten centimeters in diameter, pubescent along the veins.Tatarian maple is an excellent honey plant.The tree tolerates frost teneustoychivoe and undemanding to the soil.It is often planted in parks and gardens.
Conclusion
Maple inspires artists to write paintings, photographs make "pilgrimages" in the autumn forest, in order to stop the wonderful moment.So by all means go in autumn park to enjoy the unique colors.And if you have a private plot, the plant in his garden maple.The lifespan of the tree is very large, and therefore, not only your kids, but even the grandchildren will be able to enjoy the coolness in his shady foliage in summer and autumn to admire the dress of bright wood.
