Jess, I thought Ed, Carl, and I had some black maple on Crull Island. It had "funky" looking bark for a sugar, but the buds and leaves didn't match up to being black with the Peterson guide. So, I just called them sugars until I could be find evidence otherwise. I guess I'm more of a lumper than a splitter at heart. It was documented to be on some of the Allegheny River Islands, but darned if I could get a positive ID on them.
Dale On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Steve Galehouse <[email protected]>wrote: > ENTS- > > Black maple is fairly frequent in N Ohio, and it generally does have darker > bark with plate-like ridges, but the leaves are quite distinct from sugar > maple--usually tending to being larger, three-lobed, and much thicker > textured, and most importantly have a flagging appearance on the tree, like > paw-paw. It is also more of a bottom land species. > > Steve > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Edward Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bob >> >> It would be easier of black maples were black and red maples were red, and >> sugar maples were made out of sugar. You should see what you can do about >> that. >> >> Ed >> >> "Oh, I call myself a scientist. I wear a white coat and probe a monkey >> every now and then, but if I put monetary gain ahead of preserving >> nature...I couldn't live with myself." - Professor Hubert Farnsworth >> >> -- >> 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]<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]
