Wood ID - which type of maple?

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wahoowad

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Dec 19, 2005
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I'm in Virginia. None of the tree ID places I use show me a maple like this

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Don't know but I have a bunch of'em. None have ever gotten very big.
 
Red maple is the closest using the local Ag school tree website but it is still different enough that I wasn't sure. This is what they call a red maple leaf and mine seems to have more lobes.

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I would say Red maple, theres Mountain maple and Striped maple too.

Did you try the Virginia tech tree ID App?
You can find it in Google play store.
 
Yeah I looked around a few years ago and came up with red maple from the bark.
 
Looks like the Red Maple I had, and it likes to grow mold and mushrooms on it, if dead laying on the ground
 
Red
 
I don't want to mess up your I'd thread, but if it's not a problem... Maybe I can get a I'd for the one on the bottom? "Silver"?
 

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The tree in the original post is a Red Maple. Red Maple has three or five main lobes (the one in the post has five, more or less). Red Maple has lots of small teeth on the edges of the leaves, just like the ones in the picture. The only other large maples are Sugar Maple which has far fewer teeth on the leaf edges, Black Maple, which also has far fewer teeth, Silver Maple, with much deeper sinuses between the lobes. Mountain Maple and Striped Maple only get to be small trees, probably not much more than 6 inches in diameter.

The pictures about 10 posts in show a red on top and silver below.
 
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Pretty sure you've got red maple there. We have a lot of it here in the woodlot and in the yard. Reds can be tricky to ID due to variations in leaf and bark appearance. They're all red maple.

A couple of reds in the yard had me puzzled when we moved here. Leaves and bark were slightly different. One always sheds before the other in fall. I was convinced they were two different species 'til I did some research.
 
At first glance I guessed red maple.
 
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