biwa
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Looking for info on types of maple trees

I was in Virginia, USA last year and I saw a beautiful white-colored maple tree. Its leaves were a very pale green and its bark was a very pale gray. From a distance, it really did look white.

I think this white-colored maple tree would look really good planted next to one of those black (dark red) colored maple trees that are so common in New York.

I would like to buy a white-colored maple tree, but I don't know what it is called. I tried to Google it without much success.

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Jess
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Hi biwa :D

Could be Acer saccharinum also known as the silver maple. Its leaves are pale green on top but silver underneath and when young its bark is grey.
f. laciniatum"Wieri" has pendant lower leaves and the leaves are more deeply lobed.

You may want to check the post in this section about them
("trees for shade- silver maple")
as they can cause you problems with pipes that are nearby.

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It could also be a harlequin norway maple. I have one. It is very pale, the leaves just budding now are pale pale yellow...in summer they will be green and white..

https://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLR_en___CA211&q=harlequin+maple&btnG=Search+Images

biwa
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Hm. It's not a silver maple; the tree I saw had different shaped leaves. The Norway maple is a little closer, but still not quite right.

I just checked [url]https://plants.usda.gov/index.html[/url] and I think it's either a sugar maple (acer saccharum) or a red maple (acer rubrum), probably a red maple.

Do red maples come in different shades from darker to paler green? Because I know I've seen red maples that weren't nearly as pale as the one I'm remembering.

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Jess
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There is no other Acer rubrum but there is a saccharum "Green Mountain" (turns brilliant scarlet in Autumn)and also "Temple's Upright" (Columnar tree turns brilliant orange and then red).

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_leucoderme

perhaps with lighter leaves?



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