THE NORWAY MAPLE TREE

Common Name is Norway Maple
Scientific Name is Acer platanoides
Family is the Aceraceae
Growth Form is a Tree

Native Range around Europe, from Norway to Caucasus and Northern Turkey

In 1756 the Norway maple was introduced to the United States as a ornamental plant it continues to be sold for this reason.

NORWAY MAPLES COMPETIVE ADVANTAGES

• This tree prefers full sun.
• This tree can withstand hot dry air.
• This tree can tolerate smoke and dust and a city would be perfect for it to live in.
• This tree can tolerates ozone and sulfur dioxide air pollution.
• This tree has adapted to cites for its warming Tempertures.

The Norway maple tree has a high tolerant from smoke and dust.

The Norway maple is harming our ecosystem by producing heavy shade that prevents grass to grow under other native trees and plants. Usually, the roots will even choke other plants. Kind of like the invasive oriental bittersweet plant only not physically seen instead the choking is going on beneath the ground.
Also the Norway maple takes away nutrients that other native vegetation need in order to survive.

The Norway maple is getting removed by being girdled with , (with glyphosate; cut-stump or basal bark spray treatment around the stem with triclopyr. Girdling (by cutting into the cambium layer around the trunk in a continuous ring is effective in killing them, typically within a couple of growing seasons). Also scientists are pulling the seedling out of the ground when the soil is moist.

The Norway maples identification is a deciduous tree. It has an oval or rounded shaped crown with a central leader and heavy, dense leaf canopy. The bark of the tree is gray and smooth as a sapling, developing more big and regular grooves with in its age.

The Norway maples leaves grow in pairs on opposite sides of the stem and have a webbed structure with sharp central points and symmetric secondary points on each lobe of the leaf. The leaf has what most people would call an archetypical maple leaf shape. The number of lobes per leaf is usually 5-7 and the leaves are usually green in color, 4-7 inches wide, but there are a number of cultivars with unique characteristics, with a dark red color being the most common color of the leaf. The normal green form turns a garish yellow in the fall, often as one of the very last trees to turn color in the season.

The Norway maple is known to have a large variety of keys. Keys are seedlings and also can be food to some of our native animals such as deer, squirrels, rabbits and mice. But they don't just eat the keys but the brittle sugary bark that the crimson crowned Norway maple is bound in.