''Acer campestre'' 'Puncticulatum', or Weeping Speckled Field Maple, is a

weeping tree Weeping trees are trees characterized by soft, limp twigs. This characterization may lead to a bent crown and pendulous branches that can cascade to the ground. While weepyness occurs in nature, most weeping trees are cultivars. Because of their ...

and a

cultivar A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, ...

of ''

Acer campestre ''Acer campestre'', known as the field maple, is a flowering plant species in the family Sapindaceae. It is native to much of continental Europe, Britain, southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus, and north Africa in the Atlas Mountains. It has ...

'', the Field Maple. It was first described by Schwerin in 1893. No trees are known to survive of this

Description

without a true leader and with pendulous branches forming an umbrella shape similar to A. campestre 'Pendulum' but with leaves speckled and blotched with white like the

'Pulverulentum'.

Accessions

This cultivar used to be cultivated in Germany and England. The last record, dating from 1925, was from a specimen cultivated at the

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 ...

Synonymy

*''Acer campestre'' f. puncticulatum Schwer, (1893) Govaerts, R., Michielsen, K. & Jablonski, E. (2011). Untraced Weeping Broadleaf cultivars: an overview.
Belgische Dendrologie Belge
'' 2009: 19-30. *''Acer campestre'' var. pendulum-foliis-variegatis G.Nicholson (1902). *''Acer campestre'' var. pendulum-variegatum G.Nicholson (1925). *''Acer campestre'' pendulum pulverulentum hort.

References

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