Manchurian Stripebark Maple, Manchustriped Maple                        A-ser teg-men-TO-sum

• Deciduous tree or large shrub, 20-30 ft (6-9 m) high, oval to rounded.  Branches glabrous; trunk bark light to yellow green with white vertical stripes.  Leaves opposite, simple, 3-5 lobed, 10-15 cm long and wide, base cordate to sub-cordate, tip acuminate, margin finely serrate, pale to rich green above (golden yellow in fall), pale and glabrous below, petiole 2.5-7.5 cm, groove at point of attachment.  Flowers small, green-yellow, in slender, 7-10 cm long, nodding clusters (racemes).  Fruit (samaras) about 3 cm long, wings form a wide angle or nearly horizontal.
• Sun to part shade.  Similar to A. capilles and A. pensylvanicum, but not commonly cultivated but some consider it a superior ornamental.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 4         Native to Manchuria, Korea, and Russia.
• tegmentosum: covered, hidden.
• Portland, Oregon: Hoyt Arboretum.
• Silverton, Oregon: The Oregon Garden