its kinda in the way of a hickory i need to take down. if its a sugar maple then i will work around it. any of the other and i will drop it to make some room. sorry the pics aint so hot. let me know if im right!
good thing i asked. i will get up on the ladder tonight and snatch a fresh leaf to get a much better picture. i want to get better at descerning the maples as i am interested in preserving the healthy sugar maples on my property. my hope is to identify enough sugar maples to make the sap boiling worthwhile.
I think it could be red maple. The leaves do not look serrated enough along the edges to be "textbook" sugar maple. As best I can make out individual leaves they look more like red.
Going on the 2 leaves I can make out I think it is red. Red should have a cut angle in the leaf sinus, where on a sugar it should be more rounded or cupped. From the two leaves it appears to have a rather cut angle. CAn you get a better leaf shot?
Also look for seeds or evidence thereof. Reds make helicopters in the spring, sugar in late summer. If you see evidence of it having seeded already it is red, and seeds developing it is sugar. However I'm not sure if sugar will have started to develop seeds or even flowered yet though. And the reds should have dropped them all by now.
Yep, Red. That hole in the base doesn't look good. We've got a Sugar in the yard that's pretty far gone, half of both trunks are rotted on that old double-trunker. If it was in the woods, I'd have grabbed it by now, but I hate losing a yard guard. There are also four Reds close by, two in our yard and two across the street. I don't know if they are hybrids or what, but the leaves and bark are definitely different on a couple of these Reds, and they seed at different times in the spring...
i can see light through the other side of that hickory and its leaning away from camera shot with a fruit tree just outside right of frame. i can pull it to the side if needed but it would be easier to get the maple out of the way. not worried about that birch tree. the leaf still doesnt look like sugar to me, but who am i? IF it is indeed a sugar, when can i expect to see seeds? i didnt see any on top of last years leaves on the ground but i guess i should dig through the litter a bit to see what i can come up with.
Oops, I was looking left to right. Most definitely not Sugar (hard) Maple. I just went out and looked under my Reds; No 'helicopters' or their stem clusters to be seen, so I guess they disappear into the other litter on the ground pretty fast.
He just cut them down, but they are on the side of a steep hill. Getting them out could be a problem.
Finally got around to whacking this today before it started to rain too hard. Cut similar to ash. Is this further conclusion that it is not sugar maple? Rounds were small enough to make busting out the splitter worthwhile.
