Introducing the Maple Society's Open Science Initiative! Public education and worldwide collaboration are at the heart of the Maple Society. The embrace of an Open Science model is a natural extension of our ongoing work through scientific symposia, published material, meetings and on line. Over the next months and years we'll be publishing articles, many from our Newsletter, about once a month. These will include maple botany, culture advice, and for the first time anywhere Peter Gregory's invaluable Maple Profiles! Open Science at the Maple Society | The Maple Society In our first post we're proud to feature two excellent articles on The Maples of Europe by Piotr Banaszczak of the Rogow Arboretum, in Poland.
Are those two articles supposed to be comprehensive, or just partial? Couldn't find any mention of Acer lobelii, not even if treated at subspecies rank.
Hi Michael, I don't really have an answer to your question. These were published in 2010, when the momentum (which I know you support) to raise lobelii to species rank was less strong perhaps, and may have been written early. So perhaps Piotr didn't include them for that reason, though would be hard to explain given that their range is in southern Italy! If you want to explore his motivations you can contact him through the arboretum, arboretum@sggw.pl.
I took some time to read the documents and found that I don't know much about maples actually ^^ But one cross mentionned, whose name I had never heard before, cought my attention : A. x bornmuelleri I wonder if it's not what I've tried to identify for years, this A. campestre that looks so differents from all those I have around. See: Field maple or not?
