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Acer saccharinum
Silver Maple
Aceraceae
Located near south dorms by bus stop.
- leaves opposite, 5-lobes, with sinuses dissected strongly almost
to the petiole attachment (contrast with A. rubrum)
- leaves bright green above, shiny silver beneath (a notable feature)
- leaf sinuses are smooth margined
- leaf lobes have large teeth along margin
- buds imbricate, red-brown, with round flower buds clustered densely
at nodes
- stems thin, smooth, red-brown; malodorous when bruised
- stem tips are often pendulous
- flowers red, in earliest spring before leaves, apetalous
- fruit is a schizocarp with samaras spreading at a near 90° angle
- fruit falls by summer, thus none are visible in fall
- bark gray and smooth when young; with age becoming scaly with fissures/furrows
- habit is a large tree with upright main branches
- plant has pendulous branchlets on outside of tree that turn up at
the tips
View Acer saccharinum
page in the UConn Plant Database
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