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Maple Hybrid?


I live in a neighborhood full of wonderful old street trees. There's a 100 year old elm I visit every time I walk the dog and for some reason this evening I noticed the maple next door. It's not really a sugar maple and it's not a silver maple but it's similar to both. Leaves cut like a silver maple but wider and less deeply lobed. Bark like a sugar, a bit shaggy and gray. The growth habit is much stronger and cleaner than a silver maple. Doesn't appear to be a brittle tree. It's not a red maple either or a Norway. Is it some kind of natural hybrid? The owners of the house said it sets seeds on a different cycle from the sugars and red maples on the property.

Sorry the photos aren't better. The light was already low when I took the pictures and phones seem to do close ups better than distance.

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