Red+Maple

Red Maple // (Acer Rubrum) // Producer __ Description __ : The Acer Rubrum is a large native tree that is 30'-90' tall. The leaves have triangular lobes and doubly toothed edges. The surface is gradually turning to green and paler underneath. This tree has a reddish tint all summer. Its leafstalk is red and its fall color is yellow, orange, and scarlet red. Its bark is smooth and grey, darkening and becoming furrowed in narrow ridges with age. __ Habitat & Range __ : These trees grow in low, rich woods, along the sides of lakes, marshes, and swamps, in wet thickets, and on floodplains and stream terraces. They also grow in very large geographic and climatic ranges. __ Adaptations & Behavior __ : As the season turns to summer the leaves on the Acer Rubrum turns reddish and when spring, they turn green. The fruit on this tree grows 0.75" long. Young bark is smooth and light, ash-gray, almost silver. The older branches and trunk are covered with scaly gray brown bark. The flowers are attractive but small.