Silver Maple
(Acer saccharinum)

Tree Description

A majestic tree, the trunk is short and can develop subtrunks.  The branches are long and curve upward.   

Leaf Description

• Leaf Arrangement is opposite
• Leaf Margin is serrated
• Leaf Venation is palmate
• Leaf Division is simple
• Leaf Attachment is Petiolate
• Leaf has 5 deeply palmate lobes
• Leaf is green on top and silvery/white below
  

Bark Description
       
The bark is similar to the red maple.  It is light gray when young and then develops long strips with loose ends.

Twig and Bud Description

                
Twigs are chestnut brown and slender

Fruit Description 

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Resources:

• http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/main.htm
• Symonds, George W. D. The Tree Identification Book. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1958.
• Trees and Nonflowering Plants. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.,1998