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    Default Help me identify this maple please

    Hi all-

    Looking at purchasing some property and found some maples on it but I don't believe they are sugar maples, rather Norway. I would love to be wrong just this once but I figured I'd ask the experts. Please see the pix and advise20191028_180242.jpg20191028_180244.jpg20191028_181340.jpg

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    Are those leaves all from the same tree? First one is a sugar, second one looks almost like a red. Norway leaves look like a sugar but are much broader, as in wider across the leaf. Look at the bark, if it looks similar to an ash tree is a Norway.
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    Hard maple, my sugarbush was covered with yellow leaf last week. Not so today, 1" of snow on ground

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    I agree with raptor fan. Also, if you can find any green leaves on a Norway they exude white sap like elmers glue when broken off. Transitioning to fall that may have stopped already.

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    All the leaves are from different trees. I thought sugar leafs were flat along the bottom versus #1 & 3 have the bottoms turning in towards the stem. I appreciate any reassurance

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    #1 and 3 are sugars, #2 red the edges are smooth on sugars, and jagged on red and silvers, silvers lobes are much narrower.
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    This is fantastic news

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    I would go thru an inventory what percentage of sugars to reds to whatever else in the way of tree species you have there and try to factor that in when you make an offer. On the property I bought in the UP I could probably make back the purchase price off the land if I did a cut down to 12 inches of everything on it. I would never do that but its nice knowing you have that asset.

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    I agree and I have an aborist coming Saturday to assist with this. I can tell you that 95% of the trees out there are oak - so many oaks lol. But there are also alot of silver maples (not exactly ideal) and some shagbark hickory. I don't think there will be a ton of sugars but some is better than none. As a small producer like myself, finding a woods of all sugar maples in Ransomville NY is like a needle in a haystack.

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    I am always interested to see how people do in identifying leaves from pictures. How'd the survey with the arborist go?

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