Jess: Sugar maple leaves are usually palmately 5-lobed (rarely 3-lobed) . Black maple leaves are somewhat like those of sugar maple but usually three-lobed and the bark is more corrugated that that of sugar maple. These two maples are very similar; in fact, according to some authors, black maple is a variety of sugar maple rather than a separate species. Did you key out the leaves around the tree?
Tim On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jess Riddle <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob, > > I'm still learning to recognize the differences between black maple > and sugar maple myself. Some of the maples at Green Lakes jumped out > at me as having very strange bark for sugar maple and were similar to > some of the few black maples I have seen. Don Leopold confirmed that > black maple does grow at Green Lakes. The attached photos are of an > ~8' x 110'+ maple at Green Lakes that I think is a black maple. > > Jess > > > > Jess, > > > That's exciting. If you get back there, please, please take some > pictures of the black maples and sugar maaples and post them so we can > see the differences. Thanks in advance. > > > Bob > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to > [email protected]<entstrees%[email protected]> > -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
