Maple?

I’m thinking red, but the shaggy bark is throwing me off?

 

Are those maple leaves or tulip poplar leaves ?

 

• Tol me they look like red maple leaves, they were very small, which I know to look trees have much larger leaves usually.

 

Red maple I believe. Not tulip for sure. Tulip dosn't have shaggy bark. Tulip looks kind of like ash bark.

 

Whatever it is, I wouldn’t want that double leader tree with included bark leaning over my house.

 

Not Tulip but they’re nice straight trunks. Good wood!!

 

Can you zoom to the leaves? I saw a similar one on Mohawk Mountain last year. Had shaggy bark, but maplish leaves. Couldnt ID it. I never posted a thread here.

 

Definitely Maple. Red and Norway can both have shaggy bark like that. Hard to say which it is.

 

I did some research and its probably a black maple as is the tree i pictured. Very similar to sugar and considered a subspecies of it.

 

You didn’t bring it home for further study?

 

could be either red or silver would need a better pic of leaves if possible

 

I have never seen a red maple with bark like that

 

I did not. We were camping last Summer and in usual buZZsaw fashion i was checking out trees!
Great views from Mohawk mountain. Take a ride sometime.

 

Leaves will give the answer. I've never seen a red with shaggy bark but maples will cross breed easily so you may have some kind of mutt.

 

I bee seen a ‘shagbark maple’ in the wild. There was a red maple in my parents that had that shag bark look. The tornado two years ago took it down.

 

Could be. A good close up of these leaves would definitely help. There's a lot of trees with bark that looks similar. The leaves typically give it away.

 

Thanks for all the responses everyone. I think I agree with being black maple. I feel like I haven’t seen many of those, so I really wasn’t sure what I was looking at when I saw it.

 

Saw another one today in a state forest in Granby. Enders Falls. Great day trip. Didnt have camera with me.

 

I don’t think it’a silver. I just scored some this morning and it has a much smoother bark. Also silver maple leaves look like sugar maple leaves but have more pronounced points.