The name “silver” was denoted to this species, as the underside of the leaves appears silvery-white. The leaves are between 15-20 cm long with 5-7 lobes with sharp irregular teeth. Once the flowers are pollinated, fruits with one fully matured, elongated seed and one underdeveloped seed are produced - the wings of these seeds are separated by 90°. The pollen and seed clusters appear on different branches of the same tree. Flowers of silver maples are stockless and appear in clusters. This wood is typically used as an ornamental or in flooring. The bark appears dark, reddish-brown with vertical irregular ridges, and the yellowish-brown wood is relatively hard and heavy, but not strong. It grows on average to be 30 m tall with a trunk diameter of 1 m – but under ideal growth conditions it can reach sizes up to 40 m tall with diameters of 2 m. The silver maple grows throughout the Deciduous Forest Region but it is less common than the sugar maple or the red maple. The Paperbark Maple, Blood-Bark Maple, or Acer Griseum, is a small landscaping tree with pleasant, trifoliate leaves that transform to a show-stopping red in. Its fast growth has made this tree a popular street and ornamental tree in Manitoba. The leaflets are shallowly lobed and between 6-15 cm long. The leaves are different from other maple trees in that each leaf is a compound leaf with 3-7 leaflets that wilt and turn yellow as fall approaches. The seedcase is long and elongated, and droops in clusters similarly to pollen flowers. Pollen flowers produce fruits with 2 seeds and 2 wings each, with an angle less than 45° between each wing. Pollen flowers and seed flowers are found on separate trees, with pollen flowers appearing on thin single stalks in lateral bundles and seed flowers appearing in loose drooping clusters with a central stem. The wood appears white, and the bark appears light greyish-brown and smooth, with narrow vertical ridges appearing as the tree ages. Manitoba maple wood is relatively light, weak and soft. The Manitoba maple is smaller than it’s fellow maple trees, only reaching sizes up to 20 m, with the majority of the trees between 15 m tall and less than 1 m thick at the trunk. Manitoba maple is common throughout southern Ontario and the southern prairies.
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