Silver Maple is a species of maple native to the eastern and key United States and southeastern Canada . Its instinctive stove extends from New Brunswick , central Maine , and southern Quebec , west in southeastern Ontario and northerly Michigan to southwestern Ontario , and south in Minnesota to southeastern South Dakota , eastern Nebraska , Kansas , and Oklahoma .
Silver maple are great and deciduous in nature . They can expand in U.S. Department of Agriculture industrial plant hardiness zone 3 through 9 . The tree has also present to field of the Black Sea coast of the Soviet Union , where it adapted to the maturate conditions and is now procreate naturally in small stands .
A mature argent maple support between 50 to 70 feet improbable with a spread of 40 to 60 substructure . The diametrical - face leaves turn yellow and brown during the spill , and cut down off during the winter months . In the outflow , the silver maple is one of the first trees to bloom , producing flashy red bloom . Silver maples have a unassailable oval shape , although some cultivar have arm that are susceptible to breakage , take deliberate pruning .
Silver Maple can inhabit up to 130 years or more and is a tight - growing species , with a ontogeny rate of 3 - 7 foot per year . Other common name for this Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree include silverleaf maple , white-hot maple , river maple , swamp maple , water maple or soft maple .
Despite its popularity as a shadowiness tree , the Silver Maple has some drawback . Its brittle arm and twigs are prostrate to breaking , shower junk on the land , and its invading root system can damage pavement , foundation , and septic fields .
Characteristics of Silver Maples
Uses of Silver Maples
Despite their underweight nature , silver maples are used as an decorative tree in urban areas . In the home base landscape painting , silver maples serve as subtlety trees . Due to their other and rapid establishment , the silvery maple has function as a rehabilitation tree diagram on realm that have been mine or deforested . Because they are one of the first trees of the spring to make pollen , silverish maple are an crucial tree for bees and other pollen - pull together insects . Birds and other animate being often bank on this tree as a home ground and food beginning .
The wood of the silver maple is a hard , deal that contribute itself to wood work . The woodwind has an even grain that is easily shaped and useful for making everyday items . Silver maple wood is used for making everything from cabinets to floor to pane and furniture . Some wagons and go-cart are made from silver maple forest . The wood from this tree is even used to make melodic instruments .
Cultivars of Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum)
Pruning Silver Maples
Prune silver maples to advertise healthy , hard morphologic branches . Remove branches that grow straight away from the main torso or in angles of 30 point or less — arm that grow off from the torso , or leader , in angle between 60 and 70 degrees make the sturdiest geomorphologic branches . These upright grower can uprise dull crown of foresightful , weak limb , so start the crown by off branches that lay across others . slay competing structural branches that farm closer than 6 to 12 inches to others on the trunks of untried Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and “ pee sprouts , ” limb that farm straight up in crowd along larger branches .
