Tree Identification

[Savage3OO6]

Can someone please help me confirm that these are sugar maple leaves? 2019 will be my first year making maple syrup and I'll be starting small. I'm trying to get my scouting done now.

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[maple flats]

not sugar maple. Look up Sugar Maple leaves in any search engine and you will get several pictures. Also get a copy of any tree ID book, or the North American Maple Syrup Producers manual, or The Sugarmaker's Companion or likely even The Back Yard Sugaring. They will help far more than we could with just words.

[unc23win]

Tap all maples they all produce sap and syrup. Unless you are only going to tap a limited number. If that’s the case then yes search for sugar maples otherwise if it is a maple tap it!

[Ed R]

If they exude white sap from the fresh leaf cuts this time of year its a Norway Maple or one of its ornamental variants. Its probably a red maple or one of its ornamental variants. That's about all I tap and they make great tasting syrup, just a lot of boiling.

[maple flats]

On a maple, to my knowledge, all points of the leaf come to a point, on those in your picture most side ones are rounded on the tip. Can you post a picture of the bark? I will try to I.D. it.
The pictures you show are similar to many maples but are different. Are the leaves opposite or alternate?

[maple flats]

Take a picture of a branch coming off the trunk and one of the whole tree plus a close up of a branch showing how the leaves grow and are arranged. Once those are posted I will try to I.D. the tree

[$1000 Pancakes]

I was wondering what type of maple this is. Any thoughts? Thanks. 187281872918730


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[maple flats]

$1000 Pancakes, that is a red maple.
Savage3006, post the pictures to help.

[MapleMark753]

To the op: That pic MIGHT be a maple, but it looks more than somewhat like some type of fig leaf. Google fig leaves for a bunch of pics. I been wrong before, but...
take care, Mark

[maple flats]

3006, according to my tree identification books those are all White poplar (populus alba)

[buckeye gold]

Savage3006, I believe you have a bigtooth Maple. We sold a few in the garden center, but it's been a while since I saw one.

[maple flats]

I don't think so, on big tooth maple major lobes come to a sharp point in my tree ID book.

[buckeye gold]

Ok Dave, I was going from memory, but the shape looked right.....it's been a few years since I saw one. Leaves can vary a lot, if we could see the tree we'd know pretty quick.

[maple flats]

The basic shape is similar.

[Savage3OO6]

Sorry for never getting back to you all. I determined that they are Italian maple trees and I never got around to checking your responses. Thank you to all who took the time to help me out.

I have settled on tapping silver maples for my first year. It’s a small operation, I’m just hoping to get a gallon for home. I’ll try again to find sugar maples that I can tap this summer.

Did any of you tap yet? These few nice days have me itching to go, but I see another cold snap coming, so I think I’ll wait for the next warm up.

[MN Jake]

Definitely does not look like Italian maple. Try looking up field maple. Not sure it they're actually a maple though, if memory serves me right I think field maple is in the soapberry family.

[TapTapTap]

It looks something like a tree i saw in San Diego last week. I was thinking no way was it really a maple even if the leaves looked similar. Also, I didn't see any lines or sugar houses so it couldn't been tapable.

[Savage3OO6]

I believe you’re probably right. The seeds are rather distinct and that is enough to convince me. Either way, it’s not a tree I’ll be tapping.