snakebark maple

noun

Any maple tree belonging to the section Acer sect. Macrantha, with distinctive patterned bark.

Meanings

nounsnakebark maple (plural snakebark maples)

plural snakebark maples

  1. Any maple tree belonging to the section Acer sect. Macrantha, with distinctive patterned bark.

    Another snakebark maple grown for its striped bark, 'White Tigress', is probably a hybrid of this species.

    2014, Allen J. Coombes, The Book of Leaves: A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees

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