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| Please let me know if this is a maple tree! If not what type of tree is it. |
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| Where is the picture taken? It doesn't look like a maple tree to me. Maple trees have leaves/twigs that are opposite one another and I can't really and any clear evidence of that. |
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| See if Celtis occidentalis (Hackberry) fits. |
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| Looks like a chinese elm |
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| I had a picture of the leaves and I remember they did look like maple leaves but not as big. All the leaves of the trees mentioned above do not match. |
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| Also, this is in my yard in Brooklyn NY. |
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| If you look at this picture i found on the internet the yellow leaf in the bottom right is what the leaves on this tree look like. I also did a google search and found a silver maple may be what I have. I even found a picture with the branches with these red things. Can anyone confirm this is a silver maple? |
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| Here is the link to that persons silver maple site. It looks very similar to my tree: http://knowingtheland.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/silver-mapl/ |
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| The bark and the buds do look like silver maple to me. What's hard to tell from the photo is whether the branching is opposite. I've attached a link to images of alternate vs. opposite. If your branching is alternate, it can not be a maple. If the branching is opposite, I think that chances are good that you do, indeed, have a maple. |
Here is a link that might be useful: opposite vs. alternate branching
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sat, Feb 23, 13 at 9:13
| the pic you provide isnt really helping.. those globs.. if i am not mistaken.. are actually the flowers of this tree.. or pollen ... if it is a maple.. its setting bud for those pesky helicopters ... if you could actually get a pic of those.. i bet some of our pros here will get much closer to an ID ... for sure when it actually leafs out ... etc i am surprised.. with a tree that size.. that you cant find on old leaves somewhere within 50 feet of it.. NOBODY is that good with fall cleanup.. lol ... as an actual leaf would get us so much farther than a WWW pic.. and if you find one.. throw a ruler in the pic ... and a pic of the whole tree might help ... ken |
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| Ok! I went out and found a leaf and one of the red things. I looked at the branches and saw a mix of both opposite and alternate. Possibly this picture can help. We just moved here and I have not seen the tree in the spring. |
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| You can have alternate and opposite ... when some of the branches/twigs break off. That would make an opposite branch appear alternate. So if you are seeing some opposite then it probably is a maple; certainly that leaf looks like it. Maple flowers are starting to swell here. |
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| Yes I'm hoping to throw a few taps on it for maple syrup next year if so. An old hobby I had growing up. |
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| The usual syrup tree is sugar maple, yours is a silver maple. |
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| Has anyone been able to confirm if this is a silver maple? |
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- Posted by fatamorgana 5/6 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 25, 13 at 15:33
| The buds certainly look like a maple to me - the maples at my place look like exactly like this at the moment. (I'm the other end of NY State from you in Western NY.) And any maple can be tapped for sap. Maple sugaring time is so very quickly approaching. Maple Weekend events happen all over the state perhaps some near to you. (See link.) FataMorgana |
Here is a link that might be useful: NY Maple Weekend
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| The leaf is a silver maple leaf or perhaps a silver maple hybrid, some of which have similar leaves. Other maples don't have the deep spaces between the lobes as your photo of the several different kind of maples leaves shows. The photos I would have guessed as either a red maple or a silver maple. Around here sugaring is well under way and has been for a couple of weeks. As soon as the days are above freezing and the nights are below freezing, you get sap flow. I think that the public events tend to happen towards the end of the sugaring season and so aren't a great guide for when to do your own tapping. The advantage in tapping sugar maples is that the sugar ratio is higher in the sap than in silver or red maples so less boiling to get a given amount of syrup, but certainly the two oldest red maples that are in our yard were tapped over the years. |
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