This is very common and proper for maples. Repeat after me, "surface roots
are good". If you look closely, you can see that they look the same as
the bark of the trunk, not like roots typically buried under soil. Piling
soil on these will eventually cause them to rot & the rot will travel into
the vascular system of the tree, eventually killing it. Best bet is to
remove whatever soil, grass, etc. that's over the surface roots and replace
with any mulch except! stone or marble, which holds too much heat over the
roots.

Hope this helps.

Suzy O, Zone 5 Wisconsin


"T. L. Pope-Green" wrote in message
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I have a lot of roots from a maple tree exposed, is there anything you can
do about them?
TIA

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