SMALLER MAPLE (acer campestre)

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	SMALLER MAPLE
	*acer campestre*

Name
SMALLER MAPLE

Scientific Name
acer campestre

SMALLER MAPLE

Aceráceas Family.

East description tree can reach and to even surpass the 15 ms, although frequently it adopts the shrub form, with the rough crust. The leaves present/display obtuse lobes, they are arranged in opposed form, and are clapped, coriáceas, slightly tomentosas. The flowers are arranged in turgid corimbos of greenish yellow color. The fruit is formed by two sámaras opposite that locks up a round and squashed seed. It grows everywhere, but it prefers limestone lands, as much at level of the sea like mountainous. It is often used as you maintain of the grapevine and it is lent for the formation of fences given the emission of numerous propágulos. For the obtaining of beautiful units vegetative reproduction is preferable to use seeds instead of fa. It is collected in March-April.

Used parts: The crust.

Composed chemical: Fitosteroles, hill, alantoína, tannins. Properties Astringent, slightly anticolesterolémico.

Way of use: Decocción.

Note: The crust dries up to the sun and it is conserved in dry place. The wood very is appreciated in carpentry by its fine grain and very clear color; he is resistant to the attack of the insects. Artificially, by means of defoliation, excrescences used in ebanistería by the presence take place of jaspeados. It is a melífera and used species therefore in beekeeping. The European species, like the American, produces a sweetened sap, whose collection affects the vitality of the own individual nevertheless. The action astringent takes advantage of for cosmetic uses on reddened skins.

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