Miyabei Maple                A-ser mi-YA-bee-I

• Broadleaf deciduous tree, 65-80 ft (~20-25 m), upright oval habit.  Gray-brown to orange-brown, corky when young, becoming broken and fissured, becoming scaly with a fluted trunk.  Leaves opposite, simple, 10-15 cm long, five-lobed, lobes have indentations and end in a rounded point, dark green above, lower side olive green with tufts of hairs in axils; yellow-green veins visible; petiole yellow, 15 cm long, yields a milky latex when cut.  Fall color is pale yellow to golden.  Flowers apper with expanding leaves, they are small, yellow-green, in 10-12 cm long upright clusters.  Fruit (samara), nutlet covered with pubescence, 2 cm long, wings horizontal.
• Sun to light shade.   Species not commonly found in landscapes.  However, a selection called Street Tree® is now readily available.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 4          Native to northern Japan.
• miyabei:  after the Japanese botanist Kingo Miyabe (1860-1951).  He discovered the tree at a stop during a train ride; it was described by Karl Maximowicz in 1888.