hard maple/ soft maple???

[aaronmach1]

only one of the maples in my yard gets the big helicopter seeds. what kind is that?

 

[AIM]

Silver maple gets em by the truck load.

 

[aaronmach1]

Silver maple gets em by the truck load.

is silver the only maple thats gets the helicopters?

 

[russhd1997]

is silver the only maple thats gets the helicopters?

No they all do. The silvers are bigger than most so they more noticeable.

Some other trees like white ash get them too but they are a little different looking than maple ones.

 

[woodbooga]

No they all do. The silvers are bigger than most so they more noticeable.

Some other trees like white ash get them too but they are a little different looking than maple ones.

yeah -- reds are dinkey little ones, maybe 1/2 long. Silvers are big and aerodynamic - loved them as a kid. Norways are big too but they are conjoined 'copters - 2 stuck together at the butt end,

Bockselder are easy to ID - they're the ones coptering upwards against the wind to plant themselves in the fertile fencerows of NWWI

 

[benp]

I really like the National Audobon Society's Field Guide to trees book. Amazon.com: National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region (9780394507606): NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: Books

It helps me alot because I suck at Id'ing by the bark. I can pick out Paper Birch, Popple, Norway pine, and......tree.

Best way to id if possible is by leaves.

Sugar Maple

Silver Maple

My immediate woods consist of 75% Sugar Maple and then the rest Basswood, Popple, and White Ash with some conifers.

Since Box Elder was mentioned, here's some pictures I took a few weeks ago from cutting that I found neat because I had never seen wood like this before.