Tonkin maple

Very rare in cultivation, this upright, deciduous tree about 12m in height, has smooth, dark brown bark, purplish to olive green branchlets and palmate, purplish-green 3-5 shallow-lobed leaves, to 15cm long and wide, the young leaves red beneath and the autumn colour orange-yellow to red. Flower clusters produced in spring are yellow, followed by yellowish-green winged fruits, the wings spreading horizontally, in early autumn