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  Maple
Norway maples have been widely planted, and though they are short-lived, they are fairly hardy in our climate and are more tolerant of road salt than sugar maples.
Norway maples are notorious for producing roots that grow around the tree instead of away from the trunk in the normal manner.
This scale closely resembles the cottony maple scale to which it is closely related, but differs from it in that the egg masses are formed on the leaves instead of on the bark.
www.caes.state.ct.us /PlantPestHandbookFiles/pphM/pphmapl.htm   (3009 words)

  
  Maple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maples are trees or shrubs of the genus Acer.
Maples are an important early spring source of pollen and nectar for bees, especially honeybees, which use its resources for spring buildup.
Maples are used as a food plant for the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species (see List of Lepidoptera which feed on Maples).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maple   (520 words)

  
 Norway Maple -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The (The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant) fruit is a double (A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple) samara with two winged (A small hard fruit) seeds, the seeds are disc-shaped, strongly flattened, 10-15 mm across and 3 mm thick.
The wood of the Norway Maple is used for furniture, flooring and (Any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds) musical instruments.
Norway Maple itself is threatened in a few areas by the (Click link for more info and facts about Asian long-horned beetle) Asian long-horned beetle, which eats through the trunk of trees, often killing them.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/norway_maple.htm   (442 words)

  
 Norway - Information, Maps, Facts, What to do, Links, and much more.
Norway was a nonbelligerent during World War I, a neutrality she was able to maintain mainly due to the modern state and size of her naval fleet.
Norway was one of the signers of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 and was a founding member of the United Nations, holding its first secretary general – Trygve Lie.
Norway straddles the North Atlantic Ocean for its entire length, bound by three different seas: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerrak to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
www.forwardingsite.com /places/norway.html   (1559 words)

  
 Species: Acer platanoides
Norway maple is listed by the state of Vermont as a Category II plant: "Exotic plant species considered to have the potential to displace native plants either on a localized or widespread scale" [56].
Norway maple is a nonnative tree, usually 40 to 98 feet (12-30 m) in height, with widely spreading, ascending branches [10,18,29,52].
Norway maple typically sheds its leaves later in the season than most native deciduous species in the northeastern U.S. and adjacent Canada, presumably because the growing season is longer in its native European habitat where it evolved [10,27].
www.fs.fed.us /database/feis/plants/tree/acepla/all.html   (5223 words)

  
 Maple trees
The Norway maple was one of the most popular street trees in the United States in the ‘60s and ‘70s.
It is hardy, retains its leaves longer than the native maples, and endures the smoke, dust, and drought of the city, though it is susceptible to verticillium wilt and girdling roots.
It is very similar to the sugar maple, with a few distinguishing characteristics: the leaves are usually palmately 3-lobed with hairy lower leaf surfaces, the leaf blades are thicker and characterisically drooping at the sides, twigs are orange-brown and the bark is almost fl and more deeply furrowed.
www.waterfordva-wca.org /nature-garden/trees-maples.htm   (1484 words)

  
 Long Island Trees - Know your Maples
Norway maples grow rapidly, and in their early years are somewhat more tolerant of most of the difficult environmental conditions that exist along the sides of roads, the main exception being road salt which is damaging to all maples.
The Norway maple leaves tend to change colors significantly later during the autumn than do the leaves of the sugar maple, which is famous for vivid displays of reds, oranges and yellows.
When in doubt, a more foolproof method of identifying a Norway maple during the growing season is by removing a leaf and observing the white sap that oozes from the broken leaf stem as shown in the photo at left.
www.northshorewx.com /maples.asp   (3023 words)

  
 Invasive Exotic Plant Tutorial - Norway maple
Norway maple is the only large maple in our range that has that characteristic; however, late in the season it may be hard to detect.
Norway maple leaves are the last to change color in the fall; they remain green until early November then turn bright yellow.
Norway maple subsequently became one of the most popular trees for city plantings; many cultivars have been developed including purple-leaved and columnar forms.
www.dcnr.state.pa.us /forestry/invasivetutorial/norway_maple.htm   (786 words)

  
 Tree Facts: Norway Maple
Norway maple is a wide ranging species in Europe and Western Asia that has been planted in many parts of North America.
Norway maple and its cultural varieties are widely over planted, which is a serious problem in itself.
Norway maples that make it to healthy maturity in the city are exceptions to the general rule.
www.topnotchtree.com /treefacts/norwaymaple.html   (283 words)

  
 Norway maple, Acer platanoides (Sapindales: Aceraceae) @ Forestry Images
Norway maple is very similar to sugar maple but can be distinguished by the fruit, sap, and bark.
The angle Norway maple seed wings is around 180 degrees, sugar maple’s seed wings have an angle of around 120 degrees.
Norway maple is native to Europe and was first introduced into the United States in 1756.
www.forestryimages.org /browse/subimages.cfm?sub=3002   (327 words)

  
 NYS Horticulture Study Guide For Youth
The Norway maple is a large deciduous tree with opposite leaves and buds.
Since the Norway maple has such dense foliage, it is typically used as a shade tree, either in lawns or on streets.
As for pests and diseases, the Norway maple is susceptible to Verticillium wilt and aphids.
www.hort.cornell.edu /4hplants/ornamentals/Maplenorway.html   (269 words)

  
 MapleInfo.org - Maple Field Guide - Norway Maple
Norway Maple, Acer platanoides L. Norway maple is a native of northern Europe, but is commonly found throughout the US as a planted ornamental and naturalized in disturbed areas in urban and forested areas.
Norway maple is a large tree and typically grows to heights of 40 to 60 feet, but can reach 90'.
In spite of a number of drawbacks, Norway maple is often recommended and planted because of its fast growth and tolerance to a variety of urban conditions, especially its tolerance to salt.
www.mapleinfo.org /htm/norwaym.cfm   (318 words)

  
 the prolific Norway Maple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Norway maple is a common tree throughout much of Europe, including (not surprisingly) Norway.
Stradivarius violins built by Antonio Stradivarius(1644-1737) are rumored to be made of Norway Maple.
Norway maples never grew in North America until they became recognized for two important landscaping attributes.
www.unh.edu /neeg/normape.html   (363 words)

  
 Maple
Maples are trees of the genus Acer in the Order Sapindales, variously classified in a family of their own Aceraceae, or (together with the Hippocastanaceae) in Sapindaceae; genetic evidence points to the latter being the more accurate option.
Sugar Maple is the wood of choice for bowling pins and bowling alley lanes.
The flag of Canada depicts a maple leaf.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maple.html   (462 words)

  
 54. Norway Maple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Few species are more widely planted as troublefree, urban street-trees; every major temperate city where the climate allows, has Norway maples in its downtown core.
Norway maple combines the requisite size, strength, thriftiness and ease of propagation to an admirable degree.
The trunk is quite similar to that of Seattle's native bigleaf maple, but the leaf is not as large or deeply cut, and the seeds spread their wings wider and have no bristly hairs.
www.washington.edu /home/treetour/nmaple.html   (137 words)

  
 Ohio Trees, Bulletin 700-00, Acer – Maple
Maples are deciduous trees with winter buds bearing several overlapping scales or two uniform, valvate scales.
This tree is inferior to the Norway maple and generally not suited for Ohio conditions except within a few miles of Lake Erie.
With red maples, manganese deficiencies are common in neutral to alkaline soils and are difficult to correct due to the limestone parent material of many Ohio soils.
ohioline.osu.edu /b700/b700_55.html   (2993 words)

  
 ANSP - Patrick Center - Adaptive Management Project
During initial site selection for the Norway maple studies, it became clear that information we had received from various sources regarding the extent and nature of the Norway maple problem in the Park system was inadequate and misleading.
Note that degree of dominance by Norway maple is consistently highest in the first few quadrats, where roughly 40 to 70% of all trees were Norway maples.
Norway maples as a percentage of all trees in quadrats along transects extending inward from the edge of five study sites.
www.ansp.org /~mcnair/am_NM.html   (1469 words)

  
 Norway Maple Tree
The Norway maple tree is a deciduous, broadleaf maple tree.
Norway maple trees are native to Europe, but have been widely planted throughout the eastern United States.
Norway maple trees are able to reach heights of up to ninety feet if given enough room and the proper growing conditions.
www.aboutmapletrees.com /norway_maple_tree.shtml   (267 words)

  
 IPANE - Catalog of Species Search Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The myth of the resilient forest: Case study of the invasive Norway maple (Acer platanoides).
Response of native and exotic maple seedling banks to removal of the exotic, invasive Norway maple (Acer platanoides).
Understory influence of the invasive Norway maple (Acer platanoides).
webapps.lib.uconn.edu /ipane/browsing.cfm?descriptionid=32   (636 words)

  
 Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas: Norway Maple
Norway maple is found in 13 states in the eastern United States, from Maine to Virginia and west to Wisconsin.
It can be distinguished from native maples by the presence of a milky white sap that oozes out of leaf veins and stalks when broken.
Norway maple is easily spotted in the autumn when its leaves turn yellow late in the season.
www.nps.gov /plants/alien/pubs/midatlantic/acpl.htm   (290 words)

  
 About Maple Trees
Maple trees will vary in size by species, some reaching only fifteen to twenty feet, while other can grow to seventy feet or more in height.
Maples are deciduous trees, and propagate by seeds, which have wings.
Many maple trees have leaves that are lobed in accordance with these veins, many having one smaller lobe on each side of the long, slender stem.
www.aboutmapletrees.com   (305 words)

  
 Norway Maple Removal in the Ardens
Norways prevent native trees and shrubs from growing: they cast a dense shade, release toxic chemicals, and have shallow roots that quickly take up moisture in the soil, inhibiting native species.
Norway maple leaves are the largest and widest maple leaves, almost as big as sycamore leaves (but without the sycamore’s peeling bark).
Norway leaves stay on late into the fall, and turn a characteristic yellow color AFTER the red maples (with red fall leaves!) and other native maples shed their leaves.
www.theardens.com /weedDocs/norwayMaples.htm   (336 words)

  
 Norway Maple
While the beautiful maroon foliage of ‘Crimson King’ Norway Maple is gorgeous and a good choice in any landscape, this tree in general has developed an unfortunate reputation among arborists and horticulturists.
That said, the Norway Maple has been planted all over because it is a very attractive tree.
The Norway Maple is attractive to many because it grows quickly, adding 15 feet to its height every five years or so when they are young.
www.yardener.com /NorwayMaple.html   (924 words)

  
 Norway Maple
The buds at the top of the small Norway maple were beginning to open, whereas those at the bottom remained closed.
A number of varieties of Norway maple, such as this one, begin with a dark red-purple leaf that turns to green as the summer progresses.
Toward the right (and admittedly in a blur) is a small Norway maple, with some of its leaves also being backlit and some showing the dark red-purple leaf color.
www.lookoutnow.com /animal/n_maple.htm   (401 words)

  
 Invasion Biology Introduced Species Summary Project - Columbia University
In the mid-twentieth century, the tough and pest-resistant Norway maple was widely planted as a replacement for the dying
This reduced bio-diversity is itself a concern and becomes doubly so when seen in light of the compounding effect of other invasive species such as barberry bushes, smothering bittersweet and Japanese honeysuckle vines, as well as the over-grazing due to the proliferation of deer in many of the same forests.
Norway maples are popular on the commercial ornamental tree market -- two Norway maple cultivars ranked among the top six nursery offerings in the northeastern U.S. throughout the 80s (Norwalk and Sydnor 1992).
www.columbia.edu /itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Acer_platanoides.html   (1890 words)

  
 NORWAY MAPLE
Norway Maple is an attractive landscape tree that is tolerant of urban conditions.
However, because of a tendency to harden slowly in the fall, young trees can suffer winter trunk injury in years with severe early winter cold.
Norway Maple casts dense shade and it is difficult to grow turf underneath low branching specimens.
www.mnpower.com /treebook/fact6.html   (365 words)

  
 EarthWorks Boston
Overall, the Norway maple is a superior competitor against native northeastern hardwoods and is considered an exotic (not native) invasive species.
For instance, Norway maples are creeping into the interior of the 90-acre Allendale woods, which has been growing undisturbed in West Roxbury since the late 19th century.
Planting a Norway Maple in your yard, which is pest and disease resistant, fast growing, and tolerant to all sorts of climatic conditions, may sound like a great idea.
www.earthworksboston.org /articles/UWnorway.htm   (1036 words)

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