Norway maple is the tree Krakow plants when it simply needs a tree.
Norway Maple
Norway maple is one of the most planted street trees in Europe, valued for tolerating road salt, compacted soil and bad air, and just as routinely cut back once it outgrows its spot. This page maps every norway maple on the site, 5 so far across 4 cities.
The three mapped here are what a city decided to keep instead. One stands on a two-metre-thick fortress bastion in Den Bosch, on parkland made after the earthwork's old defensive windmill came down and the ramparts stopped being military. Munich protects two more under a 2021 natural monument ordinance built for the exception rather than the rule: one on Mondstrasse is named a singular tree that defines its square, the other on Herrnstrasse survives simply for being rare at its size among five storeys of inner-city courtyards. Snap a leaf stalk on either and it bleeds white sap, the surest way to tell a Norway maple from the sycamore maple it is otherwise mistaken for.
Krakow
Munich
Munich protects this maple for being big, which says more about the species than about the tree.
Snap a leaf stalk off this tree and it bleeds white.
Den Bosch
This Norway maple grows on top of two-metre-thick fortress walls built in 1634, the year the Dutch States Army needed a new bastion to close a gap in Den Bosch's defences after capturing the city f...
Haarlemmermeer
The sap of a Norway maple is milky white.
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