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    Default Identify These Trees?

    Ok - I have a few types of maples on my property.



    From top to bottom, I think they are sugar, red, and swamp? The lower right one has me kinda stumped.. Here's a closeup:



    Can you identify this? Is it another tree disguised as a maple? In the absence of better options, can I tap this tree?

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    the lower one is a red too!!! swamp maples and reds are the same just another name for them. they are also called soft maples. I have some smaller leaves on reds that have that shape of leaf. actually the lower one looks a little like poison ivy. poison ivy leaves have a many different shapes. Tap it!!! unless it poison ivy
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    The lower one is not poison ivy, but is somewhat similar to poison ivy. Poison Ivy is the same shape but L is about 2x W, and it turns red but does not get the color in your picture. You look to have, top to bottom, sugar, red and immature red. Reds are sometimes a swamp maple but so are silvers. A silver has very deep cuts or valleys in the leaf shape.
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    I was just kidding about the poison ivy. But the bottom one is a red I think it is just an small leave beacuse I have many large reds that have both the sugar looking leaf and the smaller rounded leaf on the same tree.
    may your sap be at 3%
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    City, the last one is either a red or a striped maple. check the bark, if it's greenish with black stripes it's a striped maple. otherwise if the bark is gray it's a red.
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    I wanna know HOW you post those pics???
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardigan99 View Post
    City, the last one is either a red or a striped maple. check the bark, if it's greenish with black stripes it's a striped maple. otherwise if the bark is gray it's a red.
    aren't the striped maple leaves huge!!! I think they they about 5 times bigger no?
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    Red, Yes, Striped Maples usually have pretty big leaves for the most part. As a rule they turn yellow in the fall but I've seen a cpl orange ones. Either way, usually a very small tree. Biggest one I've seen is like 5 inches in dia.
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    I wonder if maple trees crossbreed and then the leaves might look different. For example, the silver maples in my yard don't have silver on the underside of the leaves, but they do have the deep notches. And they also don't spread and grow all over like a patch of weeds.
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