Young maple leaves, growing in the midst of more than 10,000 acres of forest, trails, and waterfalls between Hendersonville and Brevard, North Carolina
The red maple (Acer rubrum) twig is slender, shiny, usually reddish in color; terminal buds ⅛-¼ inch long, blunt, red; the bark odorless if bruised or scraped; one of the most abundant and widespread hardwood trees in North America – probably no other species of forest tree, certainly no hardwood, can thrive on a wider variety of soil types and sites – compared to sugar and black maple, red maple is a relatively short-lived tree, rarely living longer than 150 years, mature trees commonly averaging between 20 and 30" in diameter and 60 and 90ʹ tall
Young maple leaves, growing in the midst of more than 10,000 acres of forest, trails, and waterfalls between Hendersonville and Brevard, North Carolina
The red maple (Acer rubrum) twig is slender, shiny, usually reddish in color; terminal buds ⅛-¼ inch long, blunt, red; the bark odorless if bruised or scraped; one of the most abundant and widespread hardwood trees in North America – probably no other species of forest tree, certainly no hardwood, can thrive on a wider variety of soil types and sites – compared to sugar and black maple, red maple is a relatively short-lived tree, rarely living longer than 150 years, mature trees commonly averaging between 20 and 30" in diameter and 60 and 90ʹ tall