Acer cappadocicumGled.

Cappadocian maple

WFO wfo-0000514067 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Acer cappadocicum, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. a Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203169726
Acer cappadocicum, photographed by Jagdish Singh Negi
fig. b Jagdish Singh Negi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186400190
Acer cappadocicum, photographed by Виктория Билоус
fig. c Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174384053
Acer cappadocicum, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. d Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 89460750
Acer cappadocicum, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. e Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 86990287
Acer cappadocicum, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. f Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 50870043
Acer cappadocicum, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. g Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 49495771
Acer cappadocicum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51414863

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Acer cappadocicum is native: Afghanistan, China North-Central, China South-Central, Iran, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Italy AfghanistanChina North-CentralChina South-CentralIranNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTibetTranscaucasusTürkiyeAssamEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanWest HimalayaItaly
Native distribution of Acer cappadocicum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Iran IRN
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Tibet CHT
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM
Italy ITA EUROPE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 328 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -8.8 °C -1.2 °C 3.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.1 °C 23.4 °C 27.8 °C
Annual rainfall 647 mm 906 mm 2,308 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 90 mm 161 mm 449 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 328 research-grade observations of Acer cappadocicum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 33 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acer cappadocicum f. barbinerve (Schwer.) A.E.Murray
  • Acer cappadocicum f. glaucum (Koidz.) A.E.Murray
  • Acer cappadocicum f. rubrocarpum A.E.Murray
  • Acer cappadocicum subsp. cappadocicum
  • Acer cappadocicum var. brevialatum W.P.Fang
  • Acer cappadocicum var. cultratum (Wall.) W.P.Fang
  • Acer cappadocicum var. dissectum (Wesm.) A.E.Murray
  • Acer cappadocicum var. glabrescens A.E.Murray
  • Acer cappadocicum var. indicum (Pax) Rehder
  • Acer cappadocicum var. sinicum Rehder
  • Acer cappadocicum var. stenocarpum Yalt.
  • Acer cappadocicum var. tripartitum A.E.Murray
  • Acer colchicum Hartwiss
  • Acer cultratum Wall.
  • Acer divergens K.Koch ex Pax
  • Acer divergens var. trilobum Yalt.
  • Acer laetum C.A.Mey.
  • Acer laetum f. cultratum (Wall.) Schwer.
  • Acer laetum f. rubrum Schwer.
  • Acer laetum f. tricolor Schwer.
  • Acer laetum f. viride Schwer.
  • Acer laetum var. colchicum (Hartwiss) Schwer.
  • Acer laetum var. cultratum (Wall.) Pax
  • Acer laetum var. indicum (Pax) Schwer.

and 9 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.