Acer mandshuricum - Manchurian maple
This tree doesn’t look like a maple at first glance: the leaves are composed of three small leaflets, like clover. One of the first trees to take on autumn colour at the Arboretum, at its best it can be wine-red, even violet. The crown is characteristically composed of outward curving branches, giving an open vase shape. There are old specimens at the west end of Etelärinne (Southern Slope) with younger ones on Pähkinärinne (Hazelnut Slope) near the café.