Q: I have a maple tree at my summer home that has a large area of bark missing and the underlying wood is soft. The tree is alive, but I am concerned about the "open wound." This started about two ...

Arborists recommend this tree over the silver maple and other soft maple species when a fast growing maple is needed because it is a relatively tidy, ... 8 Ways to Identify a Tree by Its Bark.

The five most common maple trees are red maple, sugar maple, silver ... the bark of maple trees grows very dark. 3. of 5. Silver Maple . ... The underside of the leaves is a soft silver in color; ...

Soft (red) and silver maple have similar bark, but the twigs of silver maple smell rank when broken. All our native dogwoods are shrubs, which leaves maple and ash as ther sole members of the ...

The bark is gray and smooth in young trees and may become flaky in older trees. Red maple, which is a popular ornamental and street tree selection, is one of Indiana’s soft maples alongside silver ...

The maple beat out oak, pine and elm trees. In 1948, that selection was narrowed by another vote to sugar maple specifically. In 1893, a favorite tree was selected by a group of Wisconsin school ...