Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Himalayan Maple

Hindi Name : फ़रजन | Scientific Name : Acer oblongum
Family : Aceraceae
Uses : Wood is used for minor construction purposes, and for making plywood, boxes and planks. Sometimes also used for making ladles, drinking cups and agricultural implements. Suitable for making commercial and moisture proof plywood, gun and rifle parts, and furniture.
Native: Himalayas of India and Nepal
General Description:

A small or medium-sized evergreen tree. Leaves broadly oblong to lance-like, long pointed, toothless, blue-green beneath, finely hairy when young. Flowers are greenish white, about 4mm, in dense branched hairy terminal cluster. It stays green all winters. It grows in the lower Himalayan foothills from 600 to 2000m elevation in moist forests, especially along streams. Cultivated in gardens for its ornamental, evergreen foliage. Bark smooth to wrinkled. Trunk irregularly buttressed at base. Twigs red-brown or purplish, slender.