I know, people might respond that I should buy a book and work it out myself I would still like to post a few pictures of my various maples for identification. The first one I bought under " Taiwanese Maple"
Likely a dwarf cultivar of Acer buergerianum. This species is native to eastern China (and Japan). Taiwan maple could also be a mistake for Trident maple, I suppose.
Hi Webwolf: Both of your Maples are Tridents. One of them is Musk Scented also known as Jakö kaedé and the other Maple is Maruba tökaedé. Jim
The Musk Scented Trident, second Maple shown by webwolf at one time was felt not to be a Maple at all. It is the same Maple that Koichiro Wada in Japan and others before him called the Musk Scented Buergerianum. That was plenty good enough for a lot of people. Later on, paleobotanical studies in Japan on this plant suggested it to be Premna japonica instead. Refer to page 152 of the Vertrees second edition Japanese Maples book. We always considered this plant to be a Trident Maple and I'll stick with that for now. Paul: I used to be able to say these names fluently but perhaps now I probably cannot do it 10 times fast with any real success. Here is one that drove some people in antique Art Glass batty to say just once. Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik. WMF for short, a revered glassworks, metal and silverplate manufacturer located near Stuttgart, Germany. Jim
I have no trouble with german words (haha) That first picture of a maple I called 'Taiwanese Maple' has much more rounded edges than the Trident of my neighbour. Could it be a different variety or can I now call it: 'Maruba Tökaed`e'
Hi Webwolf: Sometimes we can get carried away with the spellings and symbols used by other countries. Macrons and Windows operating system computers do not seem to get along. I've tried to find a font that has the right symbol but have not been successful yet. For now the elongated o (ö) is plenty good enough for all practical purposes. The e symbol (é) is close to being right for Japanese text. Yes, you can call your first Trident Maple pictured Maruba tokaede if you want, unless someone wants to argue it is not that Maple. For the overly technical among us, Maruba tökaedé will work okay for now. Jim I finally figured out how to write a macron. Acer buergerianum 'Maruba tōkaedé' Acer buergerianum 'Jakō kaedé'
Re: Identification of Trident Maples Now I have my own identification problem with the "Trident" maples. The first pic shows the leaves of three different maples I have and which were labelled Acer buergerianum. It seems that the two in the 'right' are similar to each other and and different from the one to the 'left'. The second and third pics show the new growth and leaves of the 'left' acer which, after consulting the different books, seem to match well the description of Acer buergerianum subsp. buergerianum . The fourth pic shows the new growth of the 'right' maple which, again is appreciably different from the 'left' maple. I do not know what is the variabilty of the Acer buergerianum seedlings, do I have just different seedlings of the basic Acer buergerianum? I have indeed looked around in my books and in the Antoine le Hardy's book of maples there is a picture of the leaves of Acer crataegifolium var. macrophyllum which look just like my 'right' tree; but this could be just pure coincidence. Gomero
