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Who's good at identifying trees from their leaves? (Original Post) EYESORE 9001 May 2021 OP
Sugar maple? 2naSalit May 2021 #1
I considered sugar maple EYESORE 9001 May 2021 #3
I just looked at a few pics of Sycamore... 2naSalit May 2021 #4
Sycamore leaves are serrated. Sanity Claws May 2021 #19
Crimson King Maple* It might be a Black Maple which is no longer considered a separate species. Botany May 2021 #2
Thanks for keeping up the fight. I've pretty much given up. NT enough May 2021 #5
Well, there 'ya go!!! MyOwnPeace May 2021 #7
Not seeing a resemblance EYESORE 9001 May 2021 #8
Lots of variation in leaf morpholgy in the same species. Botany May 2021 #10
roundup???? Grasswire2 May 2021 #17
"Seriously" Yup. Botany May 2021 #20
I have red-headed woodpeckers, monarchs, oak trees, dogwood, kestrel.. Grasswire2 May 2021 #21
I'm guessing Red Maple..... MyOwnPeace May 2021 #6
Yeah, I've been looking EYESORE 9001 May 2021 #9
Looks like a good old Red Maple to me - I have bunch of them around me rurallib May 2021 #16
Could it be Sweet Gum? Arkansas Granny May 2021 #11
Sweet gum leaves are thinner Sanity Claws May 2021 #18
It does look like a Crimson King maple to me. femmedem May 2021 #12
Flip it over, does it look like this ... marble falls May 2021 #13
10 to 1 it's a horticultural variety of crimson king. Pobeka May 2021 #14
I have a Crimson King Maple in my front yard markie May 2021 #15

EYESORE 9001

(25,812 posts)
3. I considered sugar maple
Sat May 1, 2021, 08:02 PM
May 2021

and it’s close, but not an exact match to my eye. It’s big, over 4” wide.

2naSalit

(86,050 posts)
4. I just looked at a few pics of Sycamore...
Sat May 1, 2021, 08:06 PM
May 2021

And I think it's that. I used to get confused by them but maple has a more elogated center where this is rather wide.

I think it's a Sycamore.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sycamore&t=newext&iax=images&ia=images

Botany

(70,291 posts)
2. Crimson King Maple* It might be a Black Maple which is no longer considered a separate species.
Sat May 1, 2021, 08:02 PM
May 2021

* A type of Norway Maple which is a total shit invasive non native tree.

Cut it off @ ground level, paint the stump with round up, and plant a native instead.



Botany

(70,291 posts)
10. Lots of variation in leaf morpholgy in the same species.
Sat May 1, 2021, 08:25 PM
May 2021

Too late now but if you can look @ a twig with out the leaves in the fall or winter the buds
are a better way of i.d.ing the tree. If the terminal bud is pointed and looks like an ice cream
cone then it is a black maple if the terminal bud is rounded then it is a Norway maple.

You can also look at the bark too. And if it smells like lutefisk then it is a Norway Maple.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
20. "Seriously" Yup.
Sat May 1, 2021, 09:31 PM
May 2021

If it is a Norway Maple then you want it to be dead. The damage done to our environment,
its supportive capacity, and our planet's biodiversity by non native invasive species is a
billion times worse then the environmental and possible health risks by the use of glyphosate.

You can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.



This is kudzu killing a forest. You will not get a wood thrush, a VA bluebell, an oak tree,
a monarch butterfly, some ginseng, a box turtle, a wood thrush, spring beauties, a redheaded
woodpecker, America Ginger, Christmas Ferns, American Dogwood, an American Kestrel, and on
and on once the kudzu takes over. I have seen whole mountain sides in W.V. turned into a waste-
land by kudzu. What are you gonna do pull it by hand?

Now if you have a better way to control non native invasive than I'm all ears but until then it
is a much needed too.

Grasswire2

(13,564 posts)
21. I have red-headed woodpeckers, monarchs, oak trees, dogwood, kestrel..
Sat May 1, 2021, 10:22 PM
May 2021

in my yard, among other wonders such as bald eagles, osprey, and more.

But I don't have kudzu. There is lesser celandine and Italian arum. I don't use roundup on them, either.

I'm just shocked.

MyOwnPeace

(16,887 posts)
6. I'm guessing Red Maple.....
Sat May 1, 2021, 08:09 PM
May 2021

but, WOW, tons of 'sites' for leaf identification available on the 'Google' thingie!

Pobeka

(4,999 posts)
14. 10 to 1 it's a horticultural variety of crimson king.
Sat May 1, 2021, 08:43 PM
May 2021

Horticultural varieties abound in the red leaf realms.

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