Red maple trees usually prefer wet soil or mildly drained soil. The leave edges are toothed or serrated like a little saw. The undersides of leaves can sometime be slightly whitish.

Further sign would be drooping branches on bigger trees and bright vivid red leaves during fall. If your tree shows clear sign of showy red flowers between January and March, you can mark it down as a red maple tree. Maple sugar, red maple have typically 5 lobes and Japanese maple between 5 to 7 lobes. To do this, begin by counting lobes of leaves. The 3 most popular type of maple trees are Maple Sugar, Red maple and Japanese Maple. Once you have established you tree is part of the Acer family, you need to identify the right specie. A typical maple tree leave has 3 to 9 veins in each leading to a lobe. They are discernable by their opposite leaf arrangement and their veined and lobed. They have a V-shaped form with wings on both sides with seed pods in the middle.Īnother clear sign to identify a maple tree is its maple leaf. The distinctive shape of the samara allows it to be carried far away from the tree when falling down and providing the tree with a wider dispersion area for his seeds. These fruits are a distinctive sign of a maple tree. If you happen to be in spring, try spotting some samaras on your tree. Just follow these steps to help you identify your maple tree and its type: Maple trees are renowned not only for being featured on the Canadian flag, producing vast quantity of delicious maple syrup or making great guitar and baseball bats but also for their appearance and their quality to transform and enchant a landscape. The maple family is referred to as Acer and the words has its roots in Latin which means “sharp” due to the distinctive points of the maple leaf. Most maple tree species are indigenous to Asia but can also be found in Europe, North America and Africa.

There is more than a hundred different species of maple trees in the world.

Maple tree leaves