Acer campestre - Field Maple

Acer campestre - Field Maple

The Field maple grows to 10-15 meters high and can be grown as a hedgerow shrub. I found this example in mersey valley in a wood.

Stems are red.

The leaf are lobed similar to a sycamores but much more rounder, they have a distinctly darker green colour and will get darker as it continues to grow.

The bark is fissured and grey-brown when mature although this is a young specimen you can point out where the fissures will break.

The twigs are grey and when they are young they are slightly hairy.