Acer pentaphyllum - Five-lobed Maple flowering A small multistemmed pine with

A small multistemmed pine with the most extraordinary bark that is smooth and peels off the trunk like that of a Platanus sp

A rarely grown whitebeam native to China

with variegation on the edge of the narrow leaves

rough bark

though its yield is lower than that of the related cork oak

Acer pentaphyllum - Five-lobed Maple flowering A small multistemmed pine withOne of the rarest maples in the wild known only from a very small and threatened population which was recently rediscovered following its introduction to cultivation in the 1930's from a scarce handful of seed. It is deciduous with deeply cut 5 lobed leaves that are very unmaple like. This delicate tree, nearly extinct in the wild and unsurprisingly it is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN