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Sugar Maple?

Post in 'The Wood Shed' started by zap, Nov 23, 2012.

  1. zap Minister of Fire

    joined: Aug 25, 2009
    10,370 posts
    I found this on the hill on the southside of our house, looks like a sugar maple. I'll get this after I haul the rest of the wood out of the woods.

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  2. f3cbboy Feeling the Heat

    joined: Jan 19, 2009
    432 posts
    rockland county, NY
    by the looks of the leaves underneath it looks to like a soft maple. Sugar maple has narrow leaves not the broad ones; i think.
  3. zap Minister of Fire

    joined: Aug 25, 2009
    10,370 posts
    I think this tree has been down since spring so those leaves are from other trees. I'll buck up some rounds before the weekends over so we can tell for sure.
  4. heus Member

    joined: Jan 15, 2009
    57 posts
    NE Ohio
    Definitely not a silver. Could be a red but I would put my money on sugar.
  5. nrford Minister of Fire

    joined: Feb 26, 2011
    649 posts
    NW lower Mi.
    I will say Hard Maple but it is still tough to tell from those two photos.
  6. scotvl Burning Hunk

    joined: Oct 23, 2009
    168 posts
    southern ontario
    Not to correct you but you should know for future identification. It's the other way around, silver maple has narrow lobed leaves and hard maple has broad.
  7. zap Minister of Fire

    joined: Aug 25, 2009
    10,370 posts
    It will be c/s/s by the end of next week, we'll have our answer by Sunday.
  8. Maple man Member

    looks like sugar maple zap:)
  9. Bacffin Feeling the Heat

    Bark is kind of too smooth for sugar...no?

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