Plant portrait - Red maple (Acer rubrum)

[@JULESoso]

Best I've seen in plant id and information.

[@natsoray]

These videos are so great! Way clearer than i.d. books or manuals, less confusing and chaotic than plant walks, and the photos are clear and well described. Thanks for your work!

[@alishamooree]

Thanks for helping me ID some trees at our new house! 😊

[@TokinWhiteKid]

Great video. There are several red maple growing on my parents property. Red maple seeds sprout like weeds under the vines growing across the ground below the deck. I've transplanted several and used others for a bonsai project. A great species for sure.

[@alejodlt]

I loved your clever video

[@herning69]

Thanks...... Love your video. I must have this tree here in Denmark 😊

[@herzymasna]

thanks for a tremendously helpful video.

[@somerandomguy7458]

Germinated like 20 of these in Southern California. Trying to start a forest of these. Don’t worry, these things grow down in Miami, so heat isn’t an issue

[@jansmisek9987]

Thank you for this video - it is superb quality and highly informative. We have one Acer Rubrum in our psychiatric hospital park in Czech Republic, it has a hollow in it and wild bees live in there. "Ikebana" kind of beauty. I was searching if the tree was male or female and now, thanks to your video, I know it is "She".

[@sarwatrizvi2458]

Jan Smíše

[@calanisvdm]

Este Maple marvilloso Maple es el que tenemo nosotros. ARMSTRONG RED MAPLE

[@Autumn_Forest_]

Thank you for this informative video! I have a question: I found a tiny seedling growing up between the wood boards of a friend's patio in Charleston, SC. He lives in a normal neighborhood and not very close to a body of water (so the sandy soil has a chance to dry out well between rains). There are zillions of different trees all around his house and neighborhood, so I can't be sure what this tree is. I gingerly pulled the seedling out and have kept it alive for a few weeks now. I hope to make it into a bonsai tree. This seedling's leaves have EVERYTHING in common with those of the red maple you describe, but they are light green, don't seem to be particularly white underneath, and have green petioles. The leaves are roughly-toothed and all, just as you describe here. There is no red color anywhere on this seedling -- not even on a new, tiny leaf or another teensy leaf that is beginning to srout. Any ideas?

[@IdentifyThatPlant]

Even if this is not a RED maple, it could be another kind of maple. I suggest consulting a tree identification book. By the way, I doubt that a maple could be used successfully to make a bonsai tree.

[@Autumn_Forest_]

@@IdentifyThatPlant I have looked at a gazillion tree ID sources online, and this seedling fits the red maple in every way except for color. Maples are actually one of the most commonly used trees for bonsai.

[@ranchkingmontana]

Great video, and very informative. So my two red maple trees are blooming and budding from the bottom of the tree first. Then towards the top later. For a while i has what looked like a dead tree from top to middle, then looked green with many leaves from middle towards bottom. Is this a normal bloom pattern for red maple trees? Thanks again!

[@IdentifyThatPlant]

+Ranch King Montana Yes, this is normal.