"Pam - gardengal" wrote in message
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"Javier Reyes" wrote in message
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I live in central Mexico in the state of Michoacan with a USDA zone of
9 or 10.

I would like to plant some maple trees here but I'm not familiar with
species that might survive here.

Does anybody have ideas or suggestions?

Thank you.

Are you in Chihuahua? http://travelamap.com/mexico/chihuahua.htm Mexico
Chihuahua map
If so, get a copy of Sunset National Garden or Sunset Western Garden Book.
Look sat nearest NM or TX zones.

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Pam:

Acer truncatum or shantung maple may work for you. It seems to be more
heat
and drought tolerant than other maple species. You could also try a maple
look-alike, Liquidambar. They do well in zone 9 and 10 in SoCal, so should
be OK for you.

Liquidambar
Liquidambar orientalis is more compact. Liquidambar orientalis Up to 10m.
Asia Minor
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A. buergerianum Trident Maple gives red color in mild climates.



Quick clues from Elias "Trees of North America"

A. pseudoplatanus
A. glabrum
A. grandidentatum
A. negundo (fast and dirty tree, but Box-Elders grow "anywhere")

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Mexico has some good Oaks.
Mexico Oaks silvery
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...s+silver-leaf+
http://www.treeguide.com/Species.asp?SpeciesID=849
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/gis/vege...s2/page15.html
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/o...oleucoides.htm


http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/samples/sam1499.htm

This is a classic Madrean Evergreen Woodland, specifically the Mexican
oak-pine woodland, a biotic community that tends to tongue down cooler
canyons in the Chiricahuas. In C. Hart Merriam's classification system, this
elevation corresponds to the Upper Sonoran life zone. However, since the
Upper Sonoran life zone also includes various grasslands, chaparral, and oak
woodlands, the limitations of the life zone system become apparent. David E.
Brown, a biology professor at Arizona State University and the editor of the
definitive guide Biotic Communities: Southwestern United States and
Northwestern Mexico, says that one advantage of the biotic community
approach is that these communities are easily recognized and even mapped on
the basis of certain "indicator" species. For example, Chihuahua and Apache
pine, together with netleaf and silverleaf oak, are indicators of the
Mexican oak-pine woodland, whereas Emory, Mexican blue, and Arizona white
oak with pinyon pine and alligator juniper characterize the encinal
woodland. Both are subunits of the Madrean Evergreen Woodland. The biotic
community system also relies on indicator animals as well as plants,
including rare and endangered species. In addition to elevation, it takes
into account nonliving elements like soil properties and landform history.
The entire classification hierarchy is flexible. Ecologists may add new
units and combine or delete old ones as further research indicates.



(I was looking for info about a "lush" lobed silvery-bottom-leafed growing
at Strybing in SF, but Q. h. is not it. )