Mono Maple
Acer pictum subsp. mono · Sapindaceae · 고로쇠나무
Look
- Leaves
- Leaves are opposite, egg-shaped or lobed egg-shaped with a tail-like tip, with no teeth on the margin and white hairs in the vein axils underneath.
- Flowers
- In May, pale yellowish-green flowers open in corymb-like panicles at the tips of new shoots.
- Fruit
- Samaras with wings spread at an acute angle, 2 to 3 cm long, ripen from mid-September to mid-October.
- Bark
- The trunk bark is whitish and smooth, and as the tree matures it develops lengthwise furrows; one-year-old twigs are grayish yellow.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- Found in China, Japan and Russia, and throughout Korea.
- Ecology
- Grows on fertile, moist mountain foothills and in valleys, as a sun-loving to moderately shade-tolerant tree. It is strongly cold-hardy and pest resistant, but relatively weak against pollution.