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Cordate Maple

Acer poliophyllum

Acer poliophyllum is a small evergreen maple tree from southwestern China, growing up to about 5 m tall with thick, leathery, toothless leaves. It is rarely cultivated, so most care guidance here is general maple knowledge rather than species-specific data.

Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, slightly acidic to neutral loam.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from hard frost below about -10 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
China (SE. Yunnan, SW. Guizhou)
Climate
temperate

About

Acer poliophyllum is an Asian species of maple. It has been found only in southwestern China (Guizhou and Yunnan.).

Acer poliophyllum is a small evergreen tree up to 5 meters tall with dark gray bark. Leaves are non-compound, up to 7 cm wide and 4.5 cm across, thick and leathery, toothless, egg-shaped with no teeth or lobes.

Other Acer plants

Tapering Leaf Maple · Acer alaskense · Himalayan Maple · Acer amamiense · Broad Maple · Deep-veined Maple · Acer ashwilli · Bearded maple · Jalisco Maple · Acer brevipes · Acer browni · Trident maple

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acer poliophyllum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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