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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho's good at identifying trees from their leaves?
Its almost certainly a maple, but I havent found an exact match yet. Care to give it a try?
2naSalit
(86,050 posts)Or maybe a Sycamore? How big is it? If it's huge, look at Sycamore.
EYESORE 9001
(25,812 posts)and its close, but not an exact match to my eye. Its big, over 4 wide.
2naSalit
(86,050 posts)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
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)I think this is a maple.
Botany
(70,291 posts)* 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.
enough
(13,237 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,887 posts)QUITE informative - and thanks!!!!!
EYESORE 9001
(25,812 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)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.
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)Seriously???
Botany
(70,291 posts)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)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)but, WOW, tons of 'sites' for leaf identification available on the 'Google' thingie!
EYESORE 9001
(25,812 posts)but no exact matches...yet.
rurallib
(62,344 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)femmedem
(8,187 posts)marble falls
(56,358 posts)Pobeka
(4,999 posts)Horticultural varieties abound in the red leaf realms.
markie
(22,755 posts)that's what you have
middle tree