Striped Maple Acer pensylvanicum

Tree Shape Generally speaking... the tree grows - No more then .3m in diameter - with a dense canopy centred above (broad deep crown) - no more then a tall shrub or small tree - Straight upright limbs Tree Shape

Leaf Leaf Identification - Symmetrical - 3 Lobed -Serrated edge -12-20 cm (full grown) -Green above & pale below -Simple - “Goosefoot” leaf **fun fact the Striped Maples around the Wood Islands grown to be almost twice as large! Leaf

Habitat The Striped Maple, also known as a Moosewood or Moose Maple- native to forests in eastern North America. -from southern Ontario to the east coast of Canada, to south eastern Illinois over to New Jersey -Upland forests, cool, moist but not wet soils - understory tree: never grows tall enough to reach forest canopy - prefers to be protected from direct sunlight

Twigs are usually moderately stout, originally green changing to red-reddish brown Younger bark: smooth, light grey green with notable white stripes running lengthwise Older bark: becomes more reddish-brown with darker grey-green stripes in green bark Bark

Seed / Fruit SAMARA Fruit also known as: Whirlybird, Helicopter, Whirligig, Pollynose, or as in the north of England a odd term ‘ Spinning Jenny’ - the shape enables them to be carried further away then regular seeds -2.5 cm, hang in clusters, and are ripe in late summer-early fall

Flower a Dioecious flower - yellow-green -strand of bell-shaped flowers -hanging from the leafs stem -late spring Flower