It's is a medium-sized tree of short bole and quickly branching crown. Click on images of Silver Maple to enlarge. samaras, 1.3" to 2.3" long, maturing in June ; one of the larger fruited maples ; Bark. Acer saccharum subsp. Shading Capacity Rated as Moderate in Leaf. We removed a Silver Maple “Acer Saccharinum” from over a clients barn. Sugar maple is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup Flowers give way to paired samaras (to 2” long) that mature in late spring. It was in the best interest of the clients property to remove the tree. The lobes are often very deep; the margins of the leaves are toothed and the upper surface is bright green while the … %%EOF
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Its natural habitat is along stream banks, floodplains, and lake edges where it grows best on better-drained, moist alluvial soils. The Garden wouldn't be the Garden without our Members, Donors and Volunteers. Latin name: Acer saccharinum Synonyms: Acer dasycarpum, Acer eriocarpum Family: Aceraceae (Maple Family) Medicinal use of Silver Maple: An infusion of the bark is used in the treatment of coughs, cramps and dysentery. It is usually found growing in open sunlight along creeks and waterways. Size: Tree > 30 feet Height: 50' - 70' (spread 35' - 50') Leaves: Deciduous Shape: oval to rounded Ornamental Other: A particularly large, fast-growing, and as a result, weak-wooded tree. Acer saccharinum ranges across much of the eastern U.S.A. from Minnesota to Louisiana and east to New Brunswick, Maine and Georgia. It is usually found growing in open sunlight along creeks and waterways. Silver maple is a tall, fast-growing, native tree of eastern North America. They al… Acer rubrum × Acer saccharinum → Acer ×freemanii Murray is a rare maple hybrid known from MA, ME, NH, VT. Additionally, the leaves serve as a source of food f… 178 34
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Acer nigrum black maple: moist riverbottoms: Acer pensylvanicum. It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada, from Nova Scotia west through southern Quebec, central and southern Ontario to southeastern Manitoba around Lake of the Woods, and northcentral and northeastern United States, from Minnesota eastward to Maine and southward to northern Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri. (Compare to other common landscape maples.) Expand. 0000003281 00000 n
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The infusion is also applied externally to old, stubborn running sores. The trunks tend to produce cavities, which can shelter squirrels, raccoons, opossums, owls and woodpeckers. Many authorities recommend against planting silver maple. Silver Maple Tree (Acer Saccharinum) Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) tree. ... but not as noticeable as Acer rubrum or Acer platanoides flowers; Fruit. A tea made from the inner bark is a blood tonic, diuretic and expectorant. soft maple, river maple, white maple, water maple, silverleaf maple, creek maple. The seeds are also a food source for squirrels, chipmunks and birds. The tree will often grow multi-stemmed unless trimmed as single stem style when young. 0000007896 00000 n
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A beautiful large landscape tree. Unless your silver maple (Acer saccharinum) is young or recently injured, don't be worried about its peeling bark. Click on images of Silver Maple to enlarge. This species has become over planted. Botanical name: Acer saccharinum Family: Aceraceae. Fall leaf color is yellow, brown and rarely red. Bark is variable in this species. planted in urban areas: Acer rubrum. The name "chalk maple" (in addition to the Latin name, meaning "white skin") comes from the attractive smooth and thin chalky white or … Wildlife uses the silver maple in various ways. Bark: gray brown, smooth on young trunks, older trunks fissured with long, and irregular flakes. Botanical name: Acer saccharinum Family: Aceraceae. Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) is likewise heavily toothed, and the petioles are usually green, but may be red as well: The keys to distinguishing the two species are: The sinuses (spaces between the lobes) in red maple are V-shaped, while those of silver maple are U-shaped. Bark is gray and smooth on young branches and trunk; breaking into narrow, flattened plates on older trunks that peel away slightly to give a rough, somewhat "shaggy" appearance. 0000008844 00000 n
Silver maple is mostly restricted to rich, moist bottomland soils bordering streams, swamps, and lakeshores, but is capable of development on dry upland sites as well, particularly as an ornamental. Latin name: Acer saccharum Synonyms: Acer saccharinum Family: Aceraceae (Maple Family) Medicinal use of Sugar Maple: A tea made from the inner bark is a blood tonic, diuretic and expectorant. Bark is gray to brownish gray. 0000004808 00000 n
Beige or Brown Samara, Large (1.50 - 3.00 inches), fruiting in Summer. No serious insect or disease problems. 0000061756 00000 n
Acer saccharinum Silver Maple Aceraceae. Polygamous greenish yellow flowers bloom in clusters in early spring (March) before the foliage. Silver maple has a vase shape and is a rapidly growing, fairly weak-wooded tree that reaches a height of 60 to 80 feet with a 5- to 6- foot diameter trunk on a moist site. Acer saccharinum is a denizen of floodplains and riverine ecosystems, well known to Midwesterners. ashy-gray bark ; clusters of "Christmas ornament" flower buds along with smaller vegetative buds ; twigs produce an odor when broken ; confused with Acer saccharinum. Amur Maple Tree (Acer ginnala) Amur maple (Acer ginnala) tree. It's is a medium-sized tree of short bole and quickly branching crown. 0000000994 00000 n
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A compound infusion of the bark has been used as drops in treating blindness. This is one of the largest deciduous trees native to Missouri, typically growing to 50-80’ (less frequently to 100’) tall with a rounded open spreading crown. H�tT�n�0��+x����EP�u2E���L��=����ұ�)0_?��8�f$E��{�(y���sQ�0�\^^O3` Long slender branches … It is native to eastern and central North America where it typically occurs in moist to wet, sometimes mucky, often poorly drained soils on floodplains, along the edges of streams and rivers and in low woods. A compound infusion of the bark has been used as drops in treating blindness. 0000007143 00000 n
Cooperative Extension, which staffs local offices in all 100 counties and with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Bark: Light gray and smooth when young, when older breaks up into long thin strips, loose at ends. Has separate male and female reproductive parts on the same tree (monoecious). Ornamental Characteristics. The tree had 3 trunks with included bark. Acer platanoides: broken leaf stalks yielding milky sap, flowers with yellow petals, and fruit wings diverging at an angle of 170-180 degrees (vs. A. saccharum, with broken leaf stalks yielding watery sap, flowers without petals, and fruit wings diverging at an angle of 60-120 degrees). Similar to red maple but coarser. The tree is useful in wet areas, transplants easily, and can grow where few others can. The leavesare opposite, deeply five-lobed; and the edges are irregular and sharply toothed.The upper surface is pale green, the lower, silvery white. Without proper and frequent pruning high winds and ice can cause limbs to break. %PDF-1.4
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Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) is the fastest growing maple either native or planted in Iowa. It has been used in the treatment of coughs, diarrhoea etc. The leaf blades are similar to A. saccharinum but have V-shaped sinuses, a shorter central lobe, and teeth distributed over the apical 50–75% of the lobes. Under the exterior bark is a pinkish-brown inner bark. Height 100' or more with a diameter of up to 36" or more; trunk usually short, divided into a number of long ascending limbs that are again divided and their small branches droop but turn upward at tips, forming a broad, rounded crown.
Bark Light Gray or Red Brown, Exfoliating. The leaves are opposite, simple, and palmately lobed with five lobes. Deeply 5-lobed light green leaves (to 6” across) have silvery undersides. The silver maple is also known as Acer saccharinum, soft maple, river maple, silverleaf maple, swamp maple, water maple, and white maple. Amur maple trees are large multi-stemmed shrubs or small trees. Out of leaf A. rubrum doesn't have "droop and swoop" branch tips like A. saccharinum Silver maple tends to develop cavities that are used by cavity- This species has become over planted. Silver Maple Tree (Acer Saccharinum) Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) tree. trailer
Without proper and frequent pruning high winds and ice can cause limbs to break. It has been used in the treatment of coughs, diarrhoea etc. In many parts of the eastern U.S., the large rounded buds are one of the primary food sources for squirrels during the spring, after many acorns and nuts have sprouted and the squirrels' food is scarce. As with many fast growing trees, silver maple has weak brittle branches that are susceptible to breaking in high winds or when coated with ice/snow in winter. Susceptible to verticillium wilt, anthracnose and canker. The bark is a food source for beavers and deer and rabbits browse the foliage. xref
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A.K.A. Also susceptible to scale and borers. Tree sap is sweet, hence the species name which comes from the Latin word for sugar, but syrups made therefrom are greatly inferior to those made from sugar maple (Acer saccharum).Genus name is the Latin name for a maple tree.Specific epithet means sugary in reference to the sweet sap. Its natural habitat is along stream banks, floodplains, and lake edges where it grows best on better-drained, moist alluvial soils. Gentle winds transform silver maple trees (Acer saccharinum) into shimmery flashes of light. On old trees, it is reddish-brown, fur- rowed, and separated into large thin scales that ar e loose at the botto m.Twigs are chestnut brown and shiny. Bark is gray and smooth on young branches and trunk; breaking into narrow, flattened plates on older trunks that peel away slightly to give a rough, somewhat "shaggy" appearance. 0000000016 00000 n
Trunk bark of mature trees is gray and rough-textured, consisting of flattened scales and straight to curving furrows. Scientific name: Acer saccharinum Pronunciation: AY-ser sack-uh-RYE-num Common name(s): Silver Maple Family: Aceraceae USDA hardiness zones: 3 through 9 (Fig. ashy-gray bark ; clusters of "Christmas ornament" flower buds along with smaller vegetative buds ; twigs produce an odor when broken ; confused with Acer saccharinum. 0000005651 00000 n
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The infusion is also applied externally to old, stubborn running sores. It is usually thin, smooth and gray on young trees, becoming thicker, darker and deeply furrowed into vertical, occasionally scaly ridges. This is a fault in the tree which makes it very weak. The silver maple is also known as Acer saccharinum, soft maple, river maple, silverleaf maple, swamp maple, water maple, and white maple. Differences: The way to tell Red Maple and Sugar Maple apart is by the bark. Wood: Wood is pale, soft, weak, even-textured, rather brittle, easily worked, and decays readily when exposed. Fall color is usually unremarkable. soft maple, river maple, white maple, water maple, silverleaf maple, creek maple. 0000061534 00000 n
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