what kind of tree is this. i belive it is a maple but can you tell what variety?
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what kind of tree is this. i belive it is a maple but can you tell what variety?
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What does the bark look like?
Off the top of my head, it might be a silver maple.
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thats not a tree its a leaf
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Am also thinking Silver Maple....but, yeah...a look at the bark would be very helpful.
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This might help
http://www.massmaple.org/treeID.html
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Originally Posted by Darrell Bottoms
It looks like maple but don't think it's silver maple. I have 3 in my front yard and the leaf is similar but different.
Just not sure.
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You may be right Dave....I've got a ton of silver maples and just went out to check....the stems on mine are a pale red color.....
With fall here, (in Oklahoma) the hard maple's are showing a lot of color, while my silver maples just dry up and fall off....
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It looks like sugar maple to me.
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Where do you live?
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I am with Lorne, "sugar maple". Sugar maple leaves have 5 tips on them. I have several on my property. They may be known by another name, if so I do not know what it is. I have several maples that have 3 tips on the leaves and the leaves are smaller than sugar maple. I have never tapped the sugar maple but if I park my vehicles under the trees in late winter I get syrup droplets all over them.
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I'm thinking silver maple or possibly an ornamental variety. If this is a mature tree and it's tall and somewhat gangly with bark in thin gray strips, it's almost certainly a silver maple.
It doesn't look like any sugar maple I've ever seen. Here are some quick pics of three common maples:
Last edited by Pete Bradley; 10-18-2009 at 9:50 PM.
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Anyone know what this leaf is?
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That one looks like Hemp to me.
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+1 for sugar maple...
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its in the woods behind my house, so i'll have to go look at bark tommorrow, i didn't pay any attention. its a mature tree. I live in Midland Michigan
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