vine maple
noun
: a small maple (Acer circinatum) found from British Columbia to California that has spreading twisted branches that may form dense thickets
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Outside, the red cedar deck has space for gathering around the table with friends, where you’ll be surrounded by native plants including vine maples, deer ferns, and salal.
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2025
Big leaf maples form a dense canopy of giant yellow leaves over the forest and vine maples are brilliant orange, salmon, yellow and red colors.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
For bigger views and an abundance of color, the 5.5-mile Skyline Trail has long-range vistas of the area’s most famous volcanoes, Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams, while also passing through expansive stretches of huckleberry and vine maple, which are turning red and orange.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
Mount Rainier is full of elderberry and huckleberry bushes, as well as vine maples, all of which turn different shades of yellow, orange, and red in autumn.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
This is a few blocks east and uphill from the Laurelwood Golf Course, in an area with Oregon white oaks, Oregon ash, snowberry, vine maple, other miscellaneous trees, as well as much undergrowth.
—oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
Native vine maple and Rocky Mountain maple are small, understory trees and may not work as an ash alternative.
—oregonlive, 29 July 2023
Pliable vine maple branches may still leaf out Q: One of my vine maples has yet to leaf out.
—oregonlive, 9 May 2021
The design was meant to evoke imagery of the sword ferns and vine maple trees of the surrounding forest.
—oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2020
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2025
Big leaf maples form a dense canopy of giant yellow leaves over the forest and vine maples are brilliant orange, salmon, yellow and red colors.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
For bigger views and an abundance of color, the 5.5-mile Skyline Trail has long-range vistas of the area’s most famous volcanoes, Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams, while also passing through expansive stretches of huckleberry and vine maple, which are turning red and orange.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
Mount Rainier is full of elderberry and huckleberry bushes, as well as vine maples, all of which turn different shades of yellow, orange, and red in autumn.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
This is a few blocks east and uphill from the Laurelwood Golf Course, in an area with Oregon white oaks, Oregon ash, snowberry, vine maple, other miscellaneous trees, as well as much undergrowth.
—oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
Native vine maple and Rocky Mountain maple are small, understory trees and may not work as an ash alternative.
—oregonlive, 29 July 2023
Pliable vine maple branches may still leaf out Q: One of my vine maples has yet to leaf out.
—oregonlive, 9 May 2021
The design was meant to evoke imagery of the sword ferns and vine maple trees of the surrounding forest.
—oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2020
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“Vine maple.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vine%20maple. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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