Guess The Maple

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Therivermonster

Burning Hunk
Dec 10, 2013
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Tacoma, WA
Good morning, folks! What type of maple do you think this is? Thanks again!

 
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Well it's mine now! But I'm not sure if it's big leaf. The leaves are somewhat large.
 
I say silver.
 
Not silver, silver has a "flaky" bark.


fv
 
Red Maple (Soft)
 
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Bark does not look like Silver or Sugar, and the tree isn't hideously deformed like Big Leaf here seem to be. And don't ever bet against nrford!! ;)
 
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The leaf more resembles Bigtooth maple but the range is different for that species but here are the 2:
Bigtooth maple (species it most resembles)
Acer grandidentatum N.
Or~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bigleaf maple
Acer macrophyllum P.
 
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Is this a wild tree or planted? If it's wild, it can only be bigleaf. None of the others has a distribution anywhere near Tacoma.
 
It was wild. Very straight trunks.
 
Whatever it is, I have tons of it. My guess is that it's around a 20-22m BTU wood. Not bad. Not great. But grab it when its free. Next year a good 30% of my wood is this maple.
 
I'm going with Norway..Sure looks like the ones I have in Illinois...
What color is the fall foliage?
if the leaves are turning yellow, it's a Norway
 
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Here is a pic of the tops if that helps.



Thanks, everyone!
 
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