Few know that maple leaf hasexcellent useful qualities. With proper use of it, you can benefit greatly from it. Of course, most people know about its most important quality. The tree is widely used in landscape design due to its amazing decorativeness, especially in the autumn season.
The article presents a description of the maple-leaf maple, peculiarities of reproduction, application in decorating garden and park areas, etc.
Maple grows all over the world.Often it is used in the greening of urban parks and suburbs. In total, there are more than 150 species of this tree, among which there are decorative forms, and simple.
The most common types:
This species of maple grows on the expanses of Europe andAsia (the western part). The northern boundary of the distribution area of the maple-leaf maple reaches the southern regions of Finland, Scandinavia and Karelia, and the southern one passes through the northern territories of Iran.
It grows mainly in deciduous and mixed forests in small groups and singly. In Russia this maple grows mainly in its middle zone.
Large distribution in broad-leaved forestshave different types of maples. Most often here you can find maple or holly, or ordinary. Flowers are fragrant, yellowish-greenish shade. The flowering of the plant occurs before leaves blossom, and after.
This rather decorative look is used forgardening of avenues and parks, reservoirs, gardens and country sites. Fruiting begins with the age of 17 years. Maple is unpretentious, well tolerates winter frosts, and is also not afraid of shading, but the soil likes fertile soil. It should be noted that wild species are more frost-resistant than cultural ones. The tree can die with excessive moisture and saline soil.
The tree has the most beautiful qualities -a large wide crown, a beautiful slender trunk. The leaves of the maple leaf are the most attractive part of this plant. For all these qualities, this tree as a decorative look is very much appreciated. In the autumn period, the plant is particularly prominent among evergreen conifers. It should be noted that the maple is well tolerated by transplantation, urban conditions with dusty atmosphere, smoke and gases. Maple-leaf is one of the main species intended for landscape gardening.
It is important to note that the leaves of this species are also used for the manufacture of medicines, since they possess such useful enzymes as carbohydrates and aldehydes.
This maple is very similar in appearance to anotheroverlooking the Canadian (or sugar) maple. They differ among themselves, above all, in the juice, which stands out from the petioles: the maple of Canada, it is transparent. And the color of the leaves in the autumn period for the maple Canadian is brighter, and the bark of it is more rough and rough. The shape of the leaves is more delicate, and the kidneys have a reddish shade, unlike the bright green in Canadian.
Of the petioles and veins of the broken leaves stands outmilky juice. The crone of the maple leaf is dense, the crust has a reddish-gray hue, dark green leaves are five-lobed in form. The lower part of the leaf plate is slightly paler. In autumn they are painted in yellow-red shades, and this phenomenon of nature acquires an indescribable beauty.
Flowering of the tree occurs in the first half of May.Flowers of a yellowish-green hue are collected in shields (15-30 pieces). Due to the fact that the maple of this species is dioecious, it has either male or female flowers. Pollination of plants occurs by insects. Nectarian in the form of a flat ring is located between the petals and the ovary. The fruit of the maple leaf is a lionfish that dissolves into 2 single-seed small fetuses. It ripens at the end of summer, and sometimes falls down to the end of winter.
The maple of this species has several decorative forms and many varieties.
As noted above, in maple leavescontains aldehydes (beta-hexene, alpha-hexene), alkaloids. Also in their composition are carbohydrates, organic acids (succinic, acetic, phthalic), rubber, polyisopropenes (squalene), carotenoids (beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, etc.), nitrogen-containing compounds (methylamine, etc.), phenol carboxylic acids gallic, salicylic), vitamins C and E, tannins, higher fatty acids, flavonoids, lipids (phytinillinolenate) and other substances.
Seeds contain rubber, cyclotry and fatty oil.
Размножение семенами – самый легкий способ.It is best to sow the seeds in the fall, so that in winter they are stratified under natural conditions. When shoots appear in spring, they should be transplanted to a permanent place.
Sowing can be carried out in the spring (March), but for this it is necessary to stratify the seeds for 5-7 days in the refrigerator in the vegetable cell, placing the seeds in a container with moistened sand.
Для размножения отводками необходимо на ветке, To remove a new sprout, make several incisions on the bark with a sharp knife (obliquely), and then treat them with a root-forming agent (“Kornevin” or “Hetero-Auxin”). To avoid the closure of the edges of the cuts, you can insert grains of foam, and wounds with moist moss (sphagnum). On top of this part of the branch wear a plastic bag, tightly securing it below and above the cuts made. Then you should cover the bag from the sun with a foil or canvas. In places of incisions, roots will gradually grow. Next spring, it is necessary to separate the layers from the maple, and together with the sphagnum to land in the ground.
Размножение отводками прикорневыми производится in the following way. On the root growth, located closer to the surface of the soil, cuts are made and treated with a root-forming solution. Then it is necessary to pile up high, covering the cuts with earth. Water and spud layers need for the entire season. His own roots will develop by the next spring, then it will be possible to dig him out and plant him in a new place.
Drugs that include maplecattail, used in diseases of the kidneys, bladder and jaundice. It is used as a tonic and antiemetic agent, as well as for catarrhal diseases, inflammatory processes of the oral cavity and pneumonia. A decoction of the leaves is recommended and after childbirth (for the complete exit of the children's place).
Fresh chopped maple leaves healwounds and ulcers. Before using them, it should be well treated with an antiseptic. It is also possible to simply apply steamed leaves on boils, bandaging the wound site every day, changing the leaf. The course of treatment is about 5-7 days. Maple juice can be taken with scurvy and as a tonic drink.
Maple, after birch, oak and pine, is the leader amongother trees by the amount of bioenergy that can replenish human energy. Moreover, its amount is constant from spring to autumn. The best time to communicate with him is early morning, during and after sunrise. Maples are “friendly” in the forest with oaks, aspen and birch.
Norway maple is popular in the design of gardens,parks, he landed and along the roads. Decorative plant the entire growing season. From a simple stump gives abundant growth, well tolerated transplant and growing conditions in the city. Within its range is one of the main species among the trees used in landscape gardening. In garden culture exists for a long time.
Maple - a good honey plant, of great importance.as an early pollen and honey plant. Maple honey belongs to the light varieties and has good taste. Bees from a plot with a flowering maple of 1 Ha produce up to 200 kilograms of honey per season.
Древесина данного вида клена используется для the manufacture of furniture and various wooden crafts. Leaves are used as dyes for wool. Maple wood is used to make the most singing clarinets and flutes.
Once, an evil mother “sworn” a naughty son,turning it into a maple tree. It grew and became sprawling and beautiful. Once the musicians, passing through the grove past this tree, settled down to a halt under it. From the branch of the tree they liked, they made a violin, which for many years in the voice of their enchanted mother told the whole world about its fault in front of him.
Maple and in fact tree melodious. It was from him that the Sadko gusli were made.
Gardeners of Holland, Germany, England often ingardening their gardens using large trees with brightly colored or variegated foliage. A variety of Norway maple varieties opens up tremendous opportunities for designers. For example, the slopes of ravines or mountains, seated maple with purple and yellow shades of foliage, and even with variegation, look fabulous.
For registration of household and seasonal dachaseven a single maple variety Crimson King, bringing a unique flavor to the design. And compositions with his participation together with other ornamental shrubs and trees can achieve even better success. Of course, this task is not so simple, since when planting seedlings it is necessary to take into account not only the compatibility of plants in their colors, but also their future sizes. With deliberate and correct calculations, this task is quite feasible.
