

These select decorative wood pieces also have subcategories that further filter the aesthetic looks. This condition occurs randomly in individual trees of several species, and often cannot be detected until the wood has been sawn, though it is sometimes visible in the standing tree as a rippled pattern in the bark. Some maple wood has a highly decorative wood grain, known as flame maple, quilt maple, birdseye maple and burl wood. The most common terminology includes the grading scale from common #2 which is unselected and often used for craft woods common #1, used for commercial and residential buildings clear and select grade, which is sought for fine woodworking. Maple wood is often graded based on physical and aesthetic characteristics. Maple is also commonly used in archery as the core material in the limbs of a recurve bow due to its stiffness and strength.
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Today it is the standard maple bat most in use by professional baseball. The maple bat was introduced to Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1998 by Sam Bat founder Sam Holman. Maple wood is also used for the manufacture of wooden baseball bats, though less often than ash or hickory due to the tendency of maple bats to shatter if they do break.

Sugar maple wood-often known as "hard maple"-is the wood of choice for bowling pins, bowling alley lanes, pool cue shafts, and butcher's blocks. Some of the larger maple species have valuable timber, particularly Sugar maple in North America, and Sycamore maple in Europe. BonsaiĪ bench made of highly figured maple wood Some delicate cultivars are usually grown in pots and rarely reach heights of more than 50–100 cm. Acer palmatum (Japanese maple) alone has over 1,000 cultivars, most selected in Japan, and many of them no longer propagated or not in cultivation in the Western world. Numerous maple cultivars that have been selected for particular characteristics can be propagated only by asexual reproduction such as cuttings, tissue culture, budding or grafting. Other maples, especially smaller or more unusual species, are popular as specimen trees.

Particularly popular are Norway maple (although it is considered invasive in North America), silver maple, Japanese maple, and red maple. Some species of maple are extensively planted as ornamental trees by homeowners, businesses and municipalities due to their fall colour, relatively fast growth, ease of transplanting, and lack of hard seeds that would pose a problem for mowing lawns. palmatum 'Sango kaku', sometimes called "coralbark maple". Acer palmatum (Japanese maple) has over 1,000 cultivars.
