Maple family maple genus deciduous small trees. The crown is umbrella-shaped or globose, the branchlets are slender, purple or grayish purple, the leaf blade is palmately 5-7-parted, usually 7-parted, the lobes ovate-oblong elliptic to lanceolate, the leaf margin is finely serrulate. Flowers polygamous, in corymbs, purple-red. Fruit globose, both fruit wings open at right angles to obtuse angles, purplish red when young, brownish yellow when mature. Flowering in May, fruiting in September. There are many varieties and types, the common ones are:

Red maple: also known as red-leaved chicken claw maple, daylight red. Leaves are red or purplish-red all year round, palmate, branches purplish-red.

Fine-leaved chicken claw maple: also known as feather maple, green feather. Branches drooping, leaves palmately parted to the base, lobes narrow and pinnatifid, crown spreading and branches slightly drooping.

Red Leaf Feather Maple: Branches spread out in all directions first, then drooping, new leaves are red, first turning yellow in the fall, then turning dark red.

Deep red fine-leaf chicken claw maple: the name red Demoiselle maple. The appearance is similar to the fine-leaved chicken claw maple, but the daily purple-red color.

Lobed chicken maple: the leaves are y lobed up to the base, the lobes are linear, and the margins are sparsely toothed or nearly entire.

Golden-leaved chicken maple: leaves are golden yellow throughout the year.

Tricolor chicken claw maple: also known as ant maple. Leaves are red, white and green.

Small-leaved chicken claw maple: also known as y divided chicken claw maple, Demoiselle maple, the leaves are smaller, palmately 7-parted, the base cordate, the lobes lanceolate, the serrations are fine-pointed, single or heavily serrated. The samara is short.

Chicken-clawed maple