Maples come trees or bush of the genus Acer. It is diversely classified within a personal of their have, the Aceraceae, or (together by having a Hippocastanaceae) included in the Sapindaceae. This occurs as debate of super yearn standing, & APG favours a wide circumscription, as a matter of style.

Maples come distinguished by paired leaf arrangement. A leaves come ordinarily palmately lobed, although palmate compound, pinnate compound, pinnate veinlike or even unlobed shapes occur. A flowers come regular, pentamerous, & borne inside racemes, corymbs, or even umbels. Their distinctive fruits occur in pairs, known as keys, shaped to spin when it fall & carry a seeds a considerable distance on the wind (view samara). A derivation of the title "acer" is uncertain, when these are the super old title. One of a alternatives is that derives from either a Latin acris (acutely), from either a hardness of the wood, purportedly utilized for spears it used to be that.

Sugar Maple leaves in fall the leaves around virtually all coinage come palmately veined & lobed, using Three-9 veins for each one leading to a lobe, one of which is in the midst. Many mintage, including a Paperbark Maple Acer griseum, Manchurian Maple Acer mandshuricum, Nikko Maple Acer maximowicziana, & 3-flower Maple Acer triflorum, stand trifoliolate leaves. A Manitoba Maple (Acer negundo) has pinnately compound leaves that will be just trifoliolate or even even may develop Little phoebe, Sevener, or seldom Ennead leaflets. 1 maple, a Hornbeam Maple Acer carpinifolium, has pinnately-veined elementary leaves that resemble people of hornbeams.

Maples flower around late wintertime or even even early spring, withinside occasionally mintage prior to a leaves pop up, however using or good fallowing a leaves in virtually all. Their flowers come little & invisible, though a outcome of an entire avenue of maples inside flower may be striking. It use at times 5 sepals, 5 flower petal astir One-6 millimetre yearn, 12 stamens astir 6-10 millimetre yearn around 2 rings of half the dozen, & 2 pistils or even a pistil by having ii styles. A ovary is superior & has 2 carpels, whose wings elongate a flowers, making it real life to tell which flowers come female. Inside two or three weeks to hexad months of flowering, a trees drop heavy many seeds.

Maples come crucial when cultivated decorative plants, for sirup sources & timber production. A select few coinage develop brilliantly autumnal leaf coloring. A Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) is tapped for sap, which is so boiled to create maple syrup or made into maple sugar or maple candy. Quebec is the world's big producer of maple sugar products. A arduous maple that is the wood of guide for bowling diaper pins & bowling alley lanes is yielded by Acer saccharum.

Maples come an significant early spring source of pollen & nectar for bees, especially honeybees, which use its resources for spring buildup. Maples come utilized as a food plant for the larvae of a total of Lepidoptera species (see List of Lepidoptera which feed on Maples).

A flag of Canada depicts a stylised maple leaf and is a large national symbol.