Acer cappadocicum, Cappadocian Maple, Beşparmak akçaağaç, Klon kolchidzki, Клён колхидский, Colchische esdoorn

Acer cappadocicum Gled.
Family: Sapindaceae

Synonyms: Acer cappadocicum f. barbinerve (Schwer.) A.E.Murray , Acer cappadocicum var. glabrescens A.E.Murray , Acer cappadocicum f. glaucum (Koidz.) A.E.Murray , Acer cappadocicum var. indicum (Pax) Rehder , Acer cappadocicum f. rubrocarpum A.E.Murray , Acer cappadocicum var. stenocarpum Yalt. , Acer colchicum Hartwiss , Acer laetum C.A.Mey. , Acer laetum var. colchicum (Hartwiss) Schwer. , Acer laetum f. rubrum Schwer. , Acer laetum f. tricolor Schwer. , Acer laetum f. viride Schwer. , Acer lobelii var. colchicum (Hartwiss) Pax , Acer lobelii f. horticolum Pax , Acer lobelii subsp. laetum (C.A.Mey.) Pax
English: Cappadocian Maple, Caucasian Maple

Arabic: قيقب كابادوكيا
Danish: Tyrkisk Løn
German: Kolchischer Ahorn, Kolchischer Spitzahorn
Farsi: شیردار
French: Érable de Cappadoce
Finnish: Kappadokianvaahtera
Hungarian: Pontusi juhar
Dutch: Colchische esdoorn
Polish: Klon kolchidzki
Russian: Клён колхидский
Turkish: Beşparmak akçaağaç
Chinese: 青皮槭

It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 20-30 m tall with a broad, rounded crown. The leaves are opposite, palmately lobed with 5-7 lobes, 6-15 cm across. The leaf stems bleed a milky latex when broken. The flowers are in corymbs of 15-30 together, yellow-green with five petals 3-4 mm long; flowering occurs in early spring. The fruit is a double samara with two winged seeds, the seeds are disc-shaped, strongly flattened, 6-11 mm across and 2-3 mm thick. The wings are 2.5-3 cm long, widely spread, approaching a 180° angle. The bark is greenish-grey, smooth in young trees, becoming shallowly grooved in mature.

2 Published articles of Acer cappadocicum

1. A new hybrid for the genus Acer L.: Acer X verhaegheanum Geerinck (Acer cappadocicum Gled. X Acer platanoides L.)
By: Geerinck, Daniel
Naturalistes Belges  Volume: 78   Issue: 1   Pages: 9-10   Published: 1997
   
2. ACER-CAPPADOCICUM, COLISEUM MAPLE, A MAPLE FOR OKLAHOMA AND THE SOUTHWEST
By: WHITCOMB, CE
OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION RESEARCH REPORT  Issue: NP-81   Pages: 60-61   Published: 1981