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Morphological characteristics of Acer negundo
Deciduous trees, up to 20 meters high. The bark is yellowish brown or grayish brown. Branchlets are cylindrical, glabrous, green in that year, and perennial plants are yellow-brown. Winter buds are small, with 2 scales and arranged like tweezers. Pinnate compound leaves, length10-25cm, 3-7 leaflets (9 sparse); Leaflets are papery, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 8 8- 10/0cm long, 2-4cm wide, tapering at the apex, obtuse or broadly wedge-shaped at the base, with 3-5 coarse serrations at the edge, 3-4cm long at the middle leaflet petiole, 3-5mm long at the side leaflet petiole, dark green at the top and light green at the bottom, except. The main vein and 5-7 pairs of lateral veins protrude below; Petiole is 5-7 cm long, sparsely pilose when tender, and glabrous after neat. The inflorescence of male flowers is umbrella-shaped, and that of female flowers is racemose, all of which are born from leafless branchlets and often droop. Pedicel is about 1.5-3 cm long, flowers are small yellow-green, open in front of leaves, dioecious, without petals and disk, stamens are 4-6, filaments are long, and ovary is hairless.

Nutlets convex, nearly oblong or oblong-ovate, glabrous; Wings are 8 8- 10/0mm wide, slightly bent inward, and 3-3.5cm long together with nutlets, with Zhang Kaicheng acute angle or nearly right angle. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is September.