Père David's Maple (Acer davidii) is an excellent medium tree for larger gardens with very interesting marked bark and beautiful foliage throughout the growing season. It is native to China, from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong, and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan. The bark is smooth, olive-green with regular narrow pale vertical stripes on young trees, eventually becoming grey-brown at the base of old trees.
The tree was originally discovered by a Chinese person lost to history, and a French priest Armand David who was in Central China as a missionary described the species in 1886 from material collected in Baoxing, Sichuan.
About 10-15 m tall x 8-10 m wide.
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