Hi Everyone, Please forgive me if I have not posted this in the proper area, I am new here and need to learn to navagate and to post photos. I need help in identifing an acer I have kept growing in a large flower pot, transferring it as needed. Please bear with me while I explaine something. To begin with, I had an abutilion tree that had leaves that looked exactely like a type of acer that died out, I do know that the parlor maple is not an acer. This plant was in my greenhouse, the following spring a tree grew up in the pot in the exact spot where the parlor maple grew in the pot. At first I thought it was the same plant. But the last 5 years I'm beginning to think this is an acer of some type. The leaves are some what soft on the top when young and look simular to, I think to the young amure maples, but as the leaves mature on this tree, they totally change shape and begin to have a slight waxy or some what hard polished feel to it. I really need someone to help me identify this acer, it can not be the parlor maple. Also through the yrs. I have tried to grow it in full sun which seems to burn the leaves so have kept it in morning sun with afternoon shade during the summer months. It maybe that it's still to young and due to it being potted is why it can not take full sun even though I have carefully tried to slowly expose it to full sun. So far this acer has not gotten any - not sure of spelling - samera's, nor has it bloomed like a parlor maple, perhaps it's still to young? I have never seen any maple leaves in our area, zone 5 like this. We do have amure maples that we hedge, a type of red maple, a sugar maple and a crimson king maple and that is it. I have been told that maples can cross in the wild and have different looking leaves with a slightly differnt type of bark. Can anyone help please? Any help will be GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANK you all for your patiences and help, Pen ~:>)
Well it's certainly not an abutilon, which would never live outdoors where you are in any case, but I can't otherwise say what it is, though it does look like a 'standard' native type.
Looks like Red Maple to me. This species is fairly variable, so it needn't look exactly like the others you already have.
THANK YOU Rima & Michael, I guess that's what I get for getting something else that looks so close to a maple! <G> I think next spring then I will plant it so it can grow into what it should be and beable to really develope. I was afraid of killing it or doing it harm not knowing for sure, but I feel more confident about it now. Again, thank you both, Pen ~:>)
