Hi,

I have a little "book" for identifying trees. No problem with trees very
common to the midwest US, i.e. oak, maple, sycamore.

Next door is a medium-size tree with palmate leaves which have 3 points
each. Seed is helicopter-type, fall in the spring.

Anybody have some idea what kind of tree this might be?

Thx,
P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

Puddin' Man wrote:
Hi,

I have a little "book" for identifying trees. No problem with trees very
common to the midwest US, i.e. oak, maple, sycamore.

Next door is a medium-size tree with palmate leaves which have 3 points
each. Seed is helicopter-type, fall in the spring.

Anybody have some idea what kind of tree this might be?

Thx,
P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

Look up box elder, or ash maple and see if that is it. Maple and ash
are the common helicopter seeds.

On Oct 3, 1:21*pm, Puddin' Man wrote:
Hi,

I have a little "book" for identifying trees. No problem with trees very
common to the midwest US, i.e. oak, maple, sycamore.

Next door is a medium-size tree with palmate leaves which have 3 points
each. Seed is helicopter-type, fall in the spring.

Anybody have some idea what kind of tree this might be?

* Thx,
* P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
* *- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

I have never seen a tree like this and I don't know what it could be
called but it sounds very pretty.

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:48:05 -0500, "D. Staples" wrote:

Puddin' Man wrote:
Hi,

I have a little "book" for identifying trees. No problem with trees very
common to the midwest US, i.e. oak, maple, sycamore.

Next door is a medium-size tree with palmate leaves which have 3 points
each. Seed is helicopter-type, fall in the spring.

Anybody have some idea what kind of tree this might be?

Thx,
P

Look up box elder, or ash maple and see if that is it. Maple and ash
are the common helicopter seeds.

Thanks. Appears to be in the ballpark, but BE has the pinnately compound
leaves. My tree looks to be palmately compound.

P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:13:33 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Oct 3, 1:21*pm, Puddin' Man wrote:
Hi,

I have a little "book" for identifying trees. No problem with trees very
common to the midwest US, i.e. oak, maple, sycamore.

Next door is a medium-size tree with palmate leaves which have 3 points
each. Seed is helicopter-type, fall in the spring.

Anybody have some idea what kind of tree this might be?

* Thx,
* P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
* *- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

I have never seen a tree like this and I don't know what it could be
called but it sounds very pretty.

It is pretty, and makes a great shade tree. Twizzlers clog the gutters,
'tho, and it takes fo'ever to rake all the leaves in the fall.

There's several of them around here, but they couldn't be -too- common
to the area: the tree is not in my book of trees often found in Missouri
(with about 35 tree types).

P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

On Oct 3, 1:21*pm, Puddin' Man wrote:
Hi,

I have a little "book" for identifying trees. No problem with trees very
common to the midwest US, i.e. oak, maple, sycamore.

Next door is a medium-size tree with palmate leaves which have 3 points
each. Seed is helicopter-type, fall in the spring.

Anybody have some idea what kind of tree this might be?

* Thx,
* P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
* *- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

What is this group about?

"Puddin' Man" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:48:05 -0500, "D. Staples"
wrote:

Puddin' Man wrote:
Hi,

I have a little "book" for identifying trees. No problem with trees very
common to the midwest US, i.e. oak, maple, sycamore.

Next door is a medium-size tree with palmate leaves which have 3 points
each. Seed is helicopter-type, fall in the spring.

Anybody have some idea what kind of tree this might be?

Thx,
P

Look up box elder, or ash maple and see if that is it. Maple and ash
are the common helicopter seeds.

Thanks. Appears to be in the ballpark, but BE has the pinnately compound
leaves. My tree looks to be palmately compound.


Surely a maple, but since in a yard, could be any number of cultivars.

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:35:59 -0500, "D. Staples" wrote:

Look up box elder, or ash maple and see if that is it. Maple and ash
are the common helicopter seeds.

Thanks. Appears to be in the ballpark, but BE has the pinnately compound
leaves. My tree looks to be palmately compound.


Surely a maple, but since in a yard, could be any number of cultivars.

Looks like no maple I've ever seen. I can post a pic if you're
interested.

Dense urban area. There are several between the sidewalk and the street.
The city (St. Louis) plants most trees in this location. They commonly
plant scarlet/pin oak, silver maple, bradford pear.

Bradford pear is a cultivar?

P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

Puddin' Man wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:35:59 -0500, "D. Staples" wrote:

Look up box elder, or ash maple and see if that is it. Maple and ash
are the common helicopter seeds.
Thanks. Appears to be in the ballpark, but BE has the pinnately compound
leaves. My tree looks to be palmately compound.

Surely a maple, but since in a yard, could be any number of cultivars.

Looks like no maple I've ever seen. I can post a pic if you're
interested.

Dense urban area. There are several between the sidewalk and the street.
The city (St. Louis) plants most trees in this location. They commonly
plant scarlet/pin oak, silver maple, bradford pear.

Bradford pear is a cultivar?

Post some shots, curiosity thing, ya know. By the way, I grew up in
Ferguson, probably saw the same trees.

On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:59:40 -0500, "D. Staples" wrote:

Puddin' Man wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:35:59 -0500, "D. Staples" wrote:

Look up box elder, or ash maple and see if that is it. Maple and ash
are the common helicopter seeds.
Thanks. Appears to be in the ballpark, but BE has the pinnately compound
leaves. My tree looks to be palmately compound.

Surely a maple, but since in a yard, could be any number of cultivars.

Looks like no maple I've ever seen. I can post a pic if you're
interested.

Dense urban area. There are several between the sidewalk and the street.
The city (St. Louis) plants most trees in this location. They commonly
plant scarlet/pin oak, silver maple, bradford pear.

Bradford pear is a cultivar?

Post some shots, curiosity thing, ya know. By the way, I grew up in
Ferguson, probably saw the same trees.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pudding_man/

The first 4. You'll likely have to zoom in to tell much about leaf
formation.

I'm in S. city. Ferguson may/may-not have planted such flora.

"Your opinion is solicited!".

Thx,
P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

Puddin' Man said:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/pudding_man/

The first 4. You'll likely have to zoom in to tell much about leaf
formation.

I'm in S. city. Ferguson may/may-not have planted such flora.

Well, it looks to me like some variety of red maple (Acer rubrum).
'Red' only refers to its typical fall color. There are a lot of cultivars.
I often see the more stubby, 3-point leaves (as in your picture)
in the woods here, even though my book on native trees shows
a more typical 5-point maple leaf silhouette.

http://www.missouriplants.com/Redopp...brum_page.html

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

After enlightenment, the laundry.

Puddin' Man wrote:
On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:59:40 -0500, "D. Staples" wrote:

Puddin' Man wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:35:59 -0500, "D. Staples" wrote:

Look up box elder, or ash maple and see if that is it. Maple and ash
are the common helicopter seeds.
Thanks. Appears to be in the ballpark, but BE has the pinnately compound
leaves. My tree looks to be palmately compound.
Surely a maple, but since in a yard, could be any number of cultivars.
Looks like no maple I've ever seen. I can post a pic if you're
interested.

Dense urban area. There are several between the sidewalk and the street.
The city (St. Louis) plants most trees in this location. They commonly
plant scarlet/pin oak, silver maple, bradford pear.

Bradford pear is a cultivar?
Post some shots, curiosity thing, ya know. By the way, I grew up in
Ferguson, probably saw the same trees.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pudding_man/

The first 4. You'll likely have to zoom in to tell much about leaf
formation.

I'm in S. city. Ferguson may/may-not have planted such flora.

"Your opinion is solicited!".

Thx,
P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

Red maple, or one of the horticultural varieties.
..

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:23:05 -0400, Pat Kiewicz wrote:

Puddin' Man said:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/pudding_man/

The first 4. You'll likely have to zoom in to tell much about leaf
formation.

I'm in S. city. Ferguson may/may-not have planted such flora.

Well, it looks to me like some variety of red maple (Acer rubrum).
'Red' only refers to its typical fall color. There are a lot of cultivars.
I often see the more stubby, 3-point leaves (as in your picture)
in the woods here, even though my book on native trees shows
a more typical 5-point maple leaf silhouette.

http://www.missouriplants.com/Redopp...brum_page.html

Acer rubrum it would indeed appear to be.

The tree has characteristics thru the season so different from the
local (silver) maples, it didn't occur to me that it might be
a maple variety, but what do I know? :-)

Thanks,
P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:23:21 -0500, "D. Staples" wrote:

Red maple, or one of the horticultural varieties.

Good enough.

Much Thanks,
P

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of Paulson, Bernanke, etc