Acer miyabei - Miyabe’s maple

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The rare and endangered Miyabe’s maple, named after the Japanese botanist Kingo Miyabe (1860-1951), is native to Japan.

 

The Morton Arboretum (Illinois):

Wide branches that sweep low to the ground and deeply furrowed, corky bark are among the charms of this densely branched shade tree. Though Miyabe’s maple is listed as endangered in its native habitat in Japan, several cultivars are considered hardy, adaptable urban street trees. The dark green leaves turn golden in fall.

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Botanical name: Acer miyabei

All Common Names: Miyabe’s maple, Miyabe maple

 

Wikipedia (EN):

Acer miyabei (Miyabe’s or Miyabe maple; Japanese: クロビイタヤ: kurobiitaya) is a species of maple native to Japan, where it occurs in Hokkaidō and the Tōhoku region in northern Honshū.

 

Missouri Botanical Garden:

Acer miyabei, commonly called Miyabe maple, is a deciduous, small to medium, oval to oval-rounded tree that typically grows to 25-40´ tall. It is native to a few scattered locations near streams and rivers in Hokkaido, Japan where it is now endangered in the wild.

 

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Wikipedia (DE):

Miyabes Ahorn (Acer miyabei) ist ein kleiner Baum aus der Gattung der Ahorne in der Familie der Seifenbaumgewächse (Sapindaceae).

 

Hortipedia – GartenInfoPortal (Homburg, Saarland):

Acer miyabei, umgangssprachlich Miyabes Ahorn, ist ein Baum.

 

Deutsche Dendrologische Gesellschaft (Ahrensburg, Schleswig-Holstein):

Acer miyabei (ID 97)

 

Taxonomic citation:

• Acer miyabei Maximowicz, Bulletin de l’Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St-Petersbourg (sér. 3) 32: 485. 1888.

 

Other scientific synonyms (not proposed):

• Acer miaotaiense P.C. Tsoong (1954)

• Acer miyabei subsp. miaotaiense (P.C. Tsoong) A.E. Murray (1969)

 

The name honors Kingo Miyabe (1860–1951), Japanese botanist noted for his works on algae, fungi, ferns, & trees.  See:

Spanish Wikipedia article on Kingo Miyabe

NOTE that the text of the Spanish Wikipedia article has the birth year wrong.  See the summary box on the right.  Maximowicz’s description of the species in 1888 was based on information from & a specimen collected by “K. Miyabe,” a young man in his 20s, not a boy of 12.

 

5499 - Aceraceae (alternatively: Sapindaceae)