NOUN
- maple of eastern and central America; five-lobed leaves turn scarlet and yellow in autumn
How To Use Acer rubrum In A Sentence
- Some of the acers turn magnificently this month with lowering temperatures turning the dark green foliage of red maple, Acer rubrum, to glowing red and the leaves of Acer capillipes from bright green to hues of rich scarlet and orange.
- Much of the sampled bark on older trees, especially Acer rubrum, was loosely attached and in various stages of decay, much like the bark on decaying logs on ground sites.
- But watch out for too much of a good thing: The seeds of acer rubrum do not require pregermination treatment and so can germinate immediately after ripening - even if they are only sitting in the mulch layer on the surface of the soil.
