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Wed, Oct 27, 10 at 11:23
| I'm looking to grow a maple that has white bark when mature any suggestions. I was thinking maybe Acer rubrum??? Any with white mature bark will do but I would prefer a type with exotic foliage like a Japanese subspecies. Also has to be hardy down to zone 5 but that shouldn't be an issue since were talking about maples. |
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| Hi - I'm not familiar with any maples that have white bark, only birch. Rubrum means 'red' (as in ruby) so that's unlikely :-). Japanese maples are borderline hardy in 5, not unless they're protected well in various ways. You could write to mountainmaples.com and see what they say - they're the experts. |
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| I have seen picture of a type of maple with a whitish trunk and had seen a discussion about a maple that had whitish bark in a picture that was said to be a Acer rubrum. I tried mountainmaples.com but came up with nothing. Are you sure they still exist? |
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| No I'm not actually - now I remember hearing that they might have closed last year, but have you tried Googling maple with white bark? |
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- Posted by simsedward 6 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 27, 10 at 19:41
| Chalk Maple http://www.treetrail.net/chalk_maple.html |
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| Here are some nice exotic Japanese maples with a white appearance on the trunk but wouldn't you figure none have the pictured trees definitive name. http://www.greenculturesg.com/articles/july05/acer_palmatum.jpg http://www.bonsaiinformation.com/Alba/maple alba bonsai.JPG http://www.bonsai-nursery.co.uk/images/Red_Maple..jpg http://home-and-gardening.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/c_pall_maple _001.jpg |
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