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Acer saccharinum |
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| | One of many seedlings growing in our bog overflow |
| Common name |
silver maple |
| Family |
sapindaceae |
| Life cycle |
tree (Z3) |
| Flowers |
greenish yellow (spring) |
| Size |
40-65' |
| Light |
sun |
From seed  |
fresh seed sprouts readily in warm conditions. dry storage is fatal
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| Seed ripens | early May |
One of the trees that came in an Arbor Day Society "ten free trees" shipment shortly after we moved into our home, it lived in a nursery area for a few years until it found a home in our back yard. Its best attribute is the bright orange-yellow fall foliage. We liked it well enough, so worked around it when the big pond was installed a few years later; the tree wound up right at the edge of the filtration bog.
In the two years since, it has grown very fast. It drops lots of leaves into the pond; this year it set seed for the first time, and dropped thousands of the large propellors right into the bog. A large number of them sprouted in the most unlikely locations, and (sprouted or not) generally made a nuisance of themselves. That combined with the reputation of this species to be weak-wooded and thirsty-rooted has led us to the conclusion that the tree's gotta go. Its moment of truth will probably arrive this fall. Meanwhile, we'll enjoy its shade for one more season.
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This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... About my plant portraits
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