Acer oliverianum

Oliver maple or Oliver’s maple is in the soapberry or Sapindaceae family and is native to China (Taiwan, and the provinces of of Anhui, Fujian, southern Gansu, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang). It is a small tree, reaching up to 7.5 m in height.

• Shoots are purplish-green with a gray, waxy bloom, upright-spreading, nearly horizontal branching that is somewhat reminiscent of Japanese maple (Acer palmatum).
• Leaves are deciduous, simple, opposite, palmate, 5–12 cm across, a truncate to subcordate base and finely-toothed, 5 triangular-ovate lobes, the middle lobe having 5-8 pairs of lateral veins. Leaves emerge with bronze tones in spring, mature to medium green by summer and in the fall are oranges, reds and yellows.
• Species is dioecious; white flowers with red sepals bloom in peduncled corymbs in the spring; they have white petals with 8 stamens that are longer than the petals.
• Winged samaras are double, glabrous, 2.5-3 cm long that spread at a wide angle.
• Bark is pale brown or gray.