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Trees are fast growing. Narrow crotch angles combined with weak wood mean that branches are prone to break off. Many consider this the least desirable of the maples.
Trees are fast growing. Narrow crotch angles combined with weak wood mean that branches are prone to break off. Many consider this the least desirable of the maples.
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Acer saccharinum, Linn. (A. dasycarpum, Ehrh. A. eriocarpum, Michx.). White or Silver Maple. Fig. 96. Large tree, 120 ft.: lvs. deeply 5-lobed to 5-cleft, 4-6 in. long, green above, silvery white beneath; lobes deeply and doubly serrate: fls. greenish yellow, apetalous: fr. pubescent when young. E. N. Amer. S.S. 2:93. G.C. II. 1:37. Em. 556. H.T. 332. F.E.32:443 (habit); 29:983 (habit).—Ornamental tree, with wide-spreading, slender branches, growing best in rich and moist soil, but succeeds almost anywhere. Lvs. turn clear yellow in fall. Many garden forms: Var. Wieri, Schwerin (var. WiJkri lacinialum, Hort.). Branches pendulous: lvs. deeply cleft, with dissected lobes.—A graceful variety, remarkable for its drooping branches and finely divided foliage. M.D.G. 1903:628 (habit). Var. heterophyllum, Pax (var. heterophyllum laciniatum, Hort.). Upright: lvs. deeply and unequally divided, with narrow lobes.
Var. tripartitum, Pax. Upright: lvs. 3-parted. Var. lutescens, Spaeth. Lvs. yellow, bronze-colored when unfolding. Var. 41bo-variegatum, Spaeth (var.
Juhlkei, Hort.). Lvs. spotted with white or rosy pink. Var.crispum,
Schwerin. Lvs. deeply (cut and crimped.-Linnaeus evidently supposed this
species to be the sugar maple, and named it accordingly. He did not know the true sugar maple.
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:''More information about this species can be found on the [[Acer|genus page]].''