Meet the mini-maples:Striped and Mountain maple deserve to be recognized as real trees

摘要

Ask any urban adult Atlantic Canadian how many kinds of maple grow here and most will answer, "One: Sugar maple."Ten to one they'll mean Norway maple, the similar and much-planted, smog-proof urban broadleaf species they know best. It's a common mistake. Even the august Royal Canadian Geographic Society got it wrong on page four of its much-touted 2004 "The Canadian Atlas." (Two pages on, they' ve got Nova Scotia's Parrsboro in New Brunswick -but otherwise it's a great piece of work.)