Sheldon wrote in
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On Aug 31, 11:46?am, enigma wrote:
Sheldon wrote
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The tree you describe is properly called "Crimson King"
Norway maple. I planted one two years ago to replace the
one that was much too large and and much too near my
house, so had it removed.

you planted a Norway maple *on purpose*? why on earth
would you replace a weed tree with another weed tree? why
not with a red maple, a sugar maple, a beech or some tree
with actual value?

I have a red maple, a few in fact, lots of sugar maples,
and I recently planted a 4" caliper American beech. Sugar
maple and red maple are not very valuable, in fact they are
the least costly of the maples found at plant nurseries.
Beech trees are nice but not very valuable... I recently
planted a weeping copper leafed beech.

i think you are confusing price with value there. a red or
sugar maple is far more valuable for lumber, for firewood &
for syrup (red maples do produce sap with enough brix to make
decent syrup) than a Norway.
Norways are not even particularly good firewood, and make far
too dense shade to be good landscape trees. they suck water.
they spread seeds far & wide. they crossbreed with sugar
maple, producing an even more useless tree...
beech are a very valuable food source for wild turkey & deer
(and humans).

fortunately my state has wised up and banned the sale &
intentional propagation of Norway maples. more places
should follow suit.
lee

You obviously haven't a clue about maple trees, and the
various Norway maples specifically. The Crimson King is a
very valuable specimen tree, the true Norway maple is a
very large multi trunked tree and a mature nicely formed
specimen is extremely valuable (I have one of those, a very
large and beautiful one. I have some young ones too).
Perhaps you're confusing the Norway maples with the silver
maple, that's the only popular maple tree that deserves to
be banned, but only within city limits as they are very
weak wooded and cause much peripheral damage during
inclement weather, but make very fine habitat trees
(critters love that they drop branches). You must live in
a state of confusion.

no. i know far more about trees & wildlife habitat than you...
but we've been over this before. you're still in denial that
i'm a maple syrup producer.

the state of NH has indeed placed the Norway maple on the
invasive species list & banned the sale & propagation of them
in the state. i'm quite pleased about this, because the stupid
things are the bane of a sugarbush.