Mexico, Morocco and Israel all have maples
The southernmost that Acer reaches is in the Americas and SE Asia,
in both continents it occurs in tropical circumstances.
PvR

Frank Reichenbacher schreef
Israel has maples? That's neat. Do you know the Latin names and
distributions by any chance? I live in Arizona, USA, where the southern
limit of the distributions of North American maples is reached just south of
our border with Mexico on the north-facing slopes of 2000+ m mountains. I'd
be interested in the Middle East counterparts. Does Morocco have maples?

Frank

"Iris Cohen" wrote
Somebody from Israel wrote to rec.gardens asking for the ID of a tree.
All
he gave us to go on was a drawing of a samara. I first thought of maples
(there are 2 in Israel), but come to find out it is Tipuana tipu, common
name
Pride of Bolivia (although it comes from eastern SA). Belongs to the
Papilionaceae, with yellow pea flowers, & is widely planted in warm
countries. Anybody know if there are any other Papilionaceae that produce
samaras or keys? I thought they all stuck to pods. Never too old to learn
something new, as Laun (?) says.
Iris,