It also can be found in Indiana woodlands in both moist and dry sites and in bottomlands and uplands. Red maple, which is a popular ornamental and street tree selection, is one of Indiana’s soft maples alongside silver maple. The bark is gray and smooth in young trees and may become flaky in older trees. In the fall, foliage typically turns a bright red to maroon color. The oppositely held leaves may resemble sugar maple but the V shaped shallow divisions stand in contrast to sugar maple’s deep u-shaped sinuses. In the early spring, it is one of the earliest native trees to flower, producing clusters of reddish flowers as well as reddish colored pairs of winged seeds/fruit. Red maple has simple three to five-lobed leaves with relatively shallow, v-shaped divisions between the lobes. This week, we introduce the red maple or Acer rubrum. The field guide helps identify common Indiana woodlot trees.Įach week, the Intro to Trees of Indiana web series will offer a sneak peek at one species from the book, paired with an ID That Tree video from Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee to help visualize each species as it stands in the woods. Threats to species health as well as also insight into the wood provided by the species, will be provided through additional resources as well as the Hardwoods of the Central Midwest exhibit of the Purdue Arboretum, if available. The full publication is available for download for $7 in the Purdue Extension Education Store. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated through a joint effort by the Purdue Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Indiana 4-H, and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, and reintroduced as “An Introduction to Trees of Indiana.” Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E.
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