ID By Leaf?

[Bacffin]

I was out back looking at doing some understory clearing and came across this young tree. I don't like to take down stuff indiscriminately and want to let this one grow. I think It will make a nice backdrop. Can any one tell what it is just from the leaves?

Thanks,
Bruce

 

[blujacket]

Looks like Tulip

 

[nrford]

+1

 

[onetracker]

striped maple

 

[Wood Duck]

Striped Maple aka Moosewood. This is not a big maple, but more of an understory tree. I guess it could grow 30 to 40 feet tall and often grows as a thicket with many stems.

 

[Bacffin]

You can see it in the background in the left middle of this picture. It has a smooth grain to the bark.

 

[nrford]

Learned a new one today. We do not have that in Northern Michigan, to the best of my knowledge! Striped Maple. We do not have any Tulip(yellow Poplar either)!

 

[Brewmonster]

Definitely not tulip tree. If the young bark is striped green and white, then striped maple is right. Another possibility is mountain maple, Acer spicatum.

Make sure it's not Viburnum acerifolia, maple-leaf viburnum, often mistaken for maple.

 

[Woody Stover]

Learned a new one today. We do not have that in Northern Michigan, to the best of my knowledge! Striped Maple. We do not have any Tulip(yellow Poplar either)!

Never heard of that Maple either. I almost said Red Maple, but the stems aren't red enough. We do have Tulip, though.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Doesn't the stripped maple have more pointed tips whereas the tulip popple does not have this?

As already stated, we have neither tree here in MI.

 

[Woody Stover]

Doesn't the stripped maple have more pointed tips whereas the tulip popple does not have this?

RIght, and different shape as well.

As already stated, we have neither tree here in MI.

Book shows the natural range...appears to be a small corridor of Striped Maple in eastern MI. Tulip/Yellow range is shown covering the southern third of the state??

 

[Backwoods Savage]

There may be some in the south of the state but none in our area.