Alias: Chicken Maple, Maple, etc.

Portal: Angiosperms

Organism: Dicotyledons

Subclass: Primitive Perianth

Organism: Sapindales

Subclass: Sapindales Subclass

Family: Maple

Genus: Maple

The species: Chicken Maple

Region of distribution: Japan, Korea, Korea, China, eastern Mongolia and southeastern Russia

Classification of chicken claw maple

1 small-leafed chicken claw maple (A. pahnatumvat. thunbergiiPax.) Leaves smaller, diameter of about 4cm, palmate 7-parted, segments narrow, sharp serrate margin, apex long pointed, samara is short.

2 fine-leaved chicken maple (A. pahnatum cv. Dissectum)

Commonly known as the "feather maple", the leaves palmately parted several to the base, the lobes are narrow and pinnatifid; the crown is spreading and the branches are slightly pendulous, usually the tree is smaller. China's eastern cities in the courtyard widely planted ornamental.

3 red fine-leafed chicken claw maple

Commonly known as "red feather maple", the plant, leaf shape with fine-leafed chicken claw armament, but the leaf color perennial red or purple-red. Often planted in the garden or potted ornamental.

4 Purple red chicken maple (A. pahnatum cv. Atmpurpureum)

Commonly known as the "red maple", the leaves are always green or purple-red, the plant, leaf shape with chicken maple.

5 Linearilobum (A. pahnatum cv. Linearilobum)

Leaves palmately parted to the base, lobes linear, margin sparsely toothed or nearly entire. There are those whose leaves are green all year round, and those whose leaves are purplish red all year round.

6A. pahnatum cv. Reticulatum

Leaves are yellow-green with green margins and dark green veins.

7 Spotted Leaf Chicken Claw Maple (A. pahnatum cv. Nersicolor)

Green leaves with white or pink spots.

8 Red-edged Chicken Paw Maple (A. pahnatum cv. Roseo-margina- tum) Young leaves and fall leaf lobe margins rose-red.