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  Guide to the Common Trees of Pennsylvania

Trees | Glossary | Visual Guide | Leaf Parts, Types, & Position

Silver Maple
(Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement)
Found in moist woods and on stream banks throughout Pennsylvania, usually reaching 50'-60' high. Many mammals and birds eat the seeds. Planted as a shade tree but has a tendency to split.

Silver Maple
Acer saccharinum L
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Leaves
Opposite, simple, deeply 5-lobed and coarsely toothed, about 5" wide, bright green above, silvery-white beneath. Fall color is a greenish-yellow.
Twigs
Slender, glossy, in spring green, turning chestnut brown. Lower branches have a distinctive upward curve at the end.
Fruit
Largest of the native maples, wings 2" long widely spreading, maturing in spring.
Bark
Smooth and gray on young trunks, older trunks brown and furrowed with plates that curl out on the ends.

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Needle-Shaped or Linear

  

Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement

Wide and Flat: Alternate Arrangement

Information courtesy of:
PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
 
 

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