Acer triflorum

Three-flowered maple is in the soapberry or Sapindaceae family and is native to China and Korea and is a trifoliate maple related to paperbark maple (A. griseum).

• Leaves are opposite, compound, have a 2.5–6 cm reddish petiole, with 3 leaflets 4–9 cm long and 2–3.5 cm broad, with serrated margins which have fine hairs on them. Its fall colours are particularly attractive, being brilliant orange, scarlet, purple and gold.
• Flowers are yellow, produced in groups of three small flowers each, hence the name.
• Samaras are 3.5–4.5 cm long and 1.3–2 cm broad, hairy.
• Bark is orange-red and is exfoliating, peeling vertically in short strips, unlike paperbark maple which peels in horizontal strips.