| Scientific Name: | Acer tegmentosum |
| Common Name: | Manchurian snakebark maple, Manchu striped maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Fall interest, Shade tree, Specimen plant, Spring interest, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Obovate, Orbicular, Double serrate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Green-yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Brown, Apr |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Branches pale green at first becoming striped chalk-white; leaves opposite, orbicular, 12-16cm wide, most with 3-5 shallow lobes and double serrate margins; florets small, in nodding racemes 7-10cm long, greenish-yellow; shizocarp 2-3cm wide, wings at 110-160 degree angle, samaras 1-1.5 cm long. Winter ID: vase shaped; buds opposite, two dark red scales, pointy; bark green striped. Winter ID: bark greenish-gray with white vertical stripes, buds smooth, dark red, valvate, stalked, 7-10mm long, may curve towards twig, terminal bud 12-15mm long. | |