Trees with hand-shaped leaves

Lobes spreading from one point, like fingers: the maples and sycamore, London plane, white poplar, and the fan-shaped ginkgo. The teeth, and whether the leaves come in pairs, tell them apart.

What to look for

Ginkgo: leavesjamie-aa, CC BY 4.0GinkgoFlat fans with forking veins, tufted on spurs Sycamore: leavesKieran Roy Powell, CC BY 4.0SycamoreFive lobes, with coarse blunt teeth Norway maple: leavesNorway mapleFive lobes, few long teeth, hair-tipped Field maple: leavesField mapleSmall, five rounded lobes, few blunt teeth White poplar: leaveshjcjim, CC BY 4.0White poplarFive lobes, thick white hairs beneath all season London plane: leavesoliverc29, CC BY 4.0London planeBroad, with three to five pointed lobes Japanese maple: leavesMarco Mussita, CC BY 4.0Japanese mapleNarrow pointed lobes, cut two-thirds of the way in
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Photographs: jamie-aa (CC BY 4.0), Kieran Roy Powell (CC BY 4.0), steve_mcwilliam (CC0), Leon Cross (CC BY 4.0), hjcjim (CC BY 4.0), oliverc29 (CC BY 4.0), Marco Mussita (CC BY 4.0). With thanks to everyone who shares their photographs on iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons.