Łódź, Górna

It is native to forests in Japan, China, Korea, Mongolia and eastern Russia. Ornamental plant. Edible plant - the sap contains a certain amount of sugar and can either be used as a drink, or can be concentrated into a syrup by boiling off the water, the syrup is used as a sweetener on many foods; the concentration of sugar is considerably lower than in the sugar maples (A. saccharum); leaves cooked, a famine food, they are only used when all else fails. Herbal plant - the leaves are an irritant, the bark is astringent. Useful plant - wood hard, close grained, the wood is used as a fuel.