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Acer saccharinum



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Acer saccharinum
Silver maple

The young bark is an attractive smooth light silvery-gray, but becomes a shaggy slightly platy and gray to gray-brown with maturity. On some trees the mature bark exhibits a slight twisting pattern.

 
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