Acer barbinerve

Bearded maple is in the soapberry or Sapindaceae family and is native to Korea, eastern Russia and northeastern China (Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces). It can be a shrub or a multi-stemmed tree, reaching up to 7 m in height.

• Leaves are deciduous, simple, opposite, 5–8 cm long, 5-lobed, roundish to ovate in outline, slender-pointed, with sharply and unevenly-toothed margins; lower surface is slightly downy on young leaves, with conspicuous tufts in the vein-axils; petiole is slender, often as long as the leaf.
• Species is dioecious; pistillate flowers are yellow and produced in April, on a raceme 5 cm long; staminate (male) flowers are in short clusters of 4 to 6.
• Winged samaras are double, spreading at an angle of about 120°, with the whole fruit being 3–3.4 cm wide.