Trees from a distance

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I'm not being ignorant here;

but has anyone else seen "yellow tips" on silver maple before? That doesn't seem like a characteristic of silver maple to me.

you mean Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) right? I would say tips are a very dull, light brick red/gray.

i would call box elder a green/yellow tip, but not silver maple.

i don't understand.
 
Hmm...it's not the first time that I've noticed a slight yellowish tinge to the silhoutte of silver Maple. It is just as the buds start to swell. It's very subtle, and may have more to do with a lighting angle or effect than neccessarily bud or twig color. The trees were a couple hundred yards from me and it was in the afternoon sun. They are definately Acer saccharinum, the sugars and boxelder around here are showing no signs of opening yet. I have seen a few reds in full bloom now and a couple of the old silvers on campus have really started swelling.
Curious....
 
I'll post one of mine if you want. a northern tree.

or else, send that picture to my e-mail and I'll resize it and "save it for web" and I'll post it for ya.

mail@arborx(dot)com ...put in a real dot for the word "dot" of course. I don't put out my e-mail on the web, so spammer programs never get ahold of it.
 
My problem is that I can't get them to be oriented right. They come out sideways. I know I hate trying to tilt my head to see photos. Any suggestions? Someone else can go in the meantime.
 
Duh!
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That's pretty obvious! I just looked at the pinkish-green opening leaf; didn't bother to see the clearly opposite buds in the upper right corner! Or anywhere else for that maater!

-Tom
 
Hey... what happened to the last post??? I am confused now. The clustered terminal buds still look like Q. rubra, but it can't be, if it's attached to the tree w/ the opposite buds (upper right)... Can it?

-Tom
 
What a relief, I was really starting to lose my patience. As for my avatar, it is not a maple. It is also not Q. rubra. I'll let you keep guessing then I'll spill the beans. Sorry to have 2 up now but my avatar was not really intentional. This is fun!
 
The cones on that pine look more elongated than they are broad, I tend to think its something other than Pitch pine, although that was my original assumption as well. I could be entirely wrong though! :)
 
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