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Acer platanoides L. (Norway Maple)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Acer platanoides Sapling 22 April 2007 Surrey England 2
Acer platanoides Plant 1 May 2002 Berks England 12
Acer platanoides Plant 8 April 2002 East Gloucestershire England 10 5
Acer platanoides Plant 27 September 1997 Berks England 2

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Poland, J., 2005 (Milk present) Milk matters - the importance of latex in vegetative identification

Acer platanoides may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Acer platanoides:

is parasitised by Sawadaea tulasnei - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Foreign Ing, B., 1990
leaf (living, green) living, green leaf is spotted by colony of Cristulariella anamorph Cristulariella depraedans - an anamorphic fungus (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes round or irregular pale buff spots 2-12mm diam. with narrow brown borders. May cause premature defoliation.]
leaf leaf is mined by larva Heterarthrus flavicollis (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Foreign Liston, A.D. & Blank, S.M., 2006 [mine runs from centre of leaf towards the margin, so the cocoon disc is taken near the margin.]
log (large) (hard, barely decayed, corticate) hard, barely decayed, corticate log (large) is decayed by fruitbody Crustomyces expallens - a resupinate basidiomycete (Polyporales: Cystostereaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W., 2006
stump (hard, barely decayed, corticate) hard, barely decayed, corticate stump is decayed by fruitbody Crustomyces expallens - a resupinate basidiomycete (Polyporales: Cystostereaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W., 2006

Acer platanoides may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Acer
(maples)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Legon, N.W., 2006 Profiles of Fungi: 141. Crustomyces expallens (Bres.) Hjorstam
Liston, A.D. & Blank, S.M., 2006 New and little-known British Xyelidae and Tenthredinidae (Hymenoptera, Symphyta)

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