Fast growing snake bark with large leaves. Nice conspicuous stripes. Possible tegmentosum hybrid . I suspect it will reach 25 feet or more.
This is a tree I've had potted for about 10 years. Hmmm, still learning the upload process for the pics.
I have both planted near one another here, the cultivar looks quite like Acer pensylvanicum. Have not, however, done a study using close examination of samples of all three at the same time.
I always assumed mine was 'White Tigress'. It was sold as WT and the the bark is richly colored. Dirr says the stalked valvate bud is a great key to (id) the snakebarks. Does that bud pic in the earlier post look different than your plants?
What I was saying was that the cultivar probably isn't A. tegmentosum, or at least not a pure one, and not that any of the specimens shown here were not the cultivar.
the last news that i read is :tegmentosum white tigress is one cross between acer Tegmentosum and Davidii Tegmentosum x Davidii=Tegmentosum White Tigress now is present in commerce Davidii xTegmentosum for the moment not have name... pics of my White Tigress in start autum..
If hybrid then should be written as 'White Tigress', without "tegmentosum" in front, as it is in the 2002 Hillier MANUAL: "Of American origin, it is thought to be a hybrid of A. tegmentosum". In 1996 Jacobson, NORTH AMERICAN LANDSCAPE TREES listed it as a pure A. tegmentosum form, even cross-referencing from 'White Tigress' to A. tegmentosum 'White Tigress' (and listing 'White Tigress' as a synonym): "Introduced in 1995 by Roslyn nursery of Dix Hills, NY. 'Pure chalk-white bark.'"
