In message , Janet Tweedy
writes
In article , Stewart Robert Hinsley
writes
Photographed at the University of Liverpool Botanic Gardens last
Thurdays. I think it's one of the snake-barks, and lean towards Acer
capillipes.

http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Acer241.jpg (tree)
http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Acer242.jpg (raceme)
http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/Acer243.jpg (foliage and
flowers)

(I've compressed the images, but they're still fairly large.)

My snake bark leaves are much more incised Stewart.

I'm not going to insist that it's a snake-bark, but that group seemed
the best match in Mitchell. There's several species of snake-bark maples
- Mitchell includes Aa. davidii, crataegifolium, pensylvanicum,
rufinerve, hersii, capillipes and forestii, and also mentions A.
laxiflorum. The degree of lobing varies within and between species; for
example some forms of A. davidii have, fide Mitchell, unlobed leaves.

Janet


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Stewart Robert Hinsley