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Acer pictum, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#1793 most planted

Acer pictum

Yellow-paint maple · also Mono maple, The painted maple, Painted maple

Deciduous
18
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
8.1 in
median trunk (21 cm, 18 measured)

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Acer pictum, also known as yellow-paint maple, is a deciduous tree reaching up to 20 meters with gray bark and distinctive lobed leaves. Its natural habitat is in temperate forests across widespread areas of East Asia.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Tokyo · Japan
    16—8.1 in
  2. Helsinki · Finland
    2—2.0 in

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Traits

Foliage
Deciduous
Mature height
65.6 ft
Blooms
Jun, Jul, Aug

Trunk diameters across every city: median 8.1 in, mean 7.1 in, 90th percentile 12 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
  • Central Korean deciduous forests
  • Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
  • Southern Korea evergreen forests

Other Acer in the catalogue

50 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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