snakebark maple

English

Noun

snakebark maple (plural snakebark maples)

1. Any maple tree belonging to the section Macrantha, with distinctive patterned bark.
   • 2014, Allen J. Coombes, The Book of Leaves: A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees:

     Another snakebark maple grown for its striped bark, 'White Tigress', is probably a hybrid of this species.

Further reading

• snakebark maple on Wikipedia.Wikipedia