Paperbark maple, trunk

[hinmo24t]

 

[Maiden69]

funny, looks like you "welded" the trunk down the middle.

 

[hinmo24t]

funny, looks like you "welded" the trunk down the middle.
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natures beadwork

the tree is impressive with canopy, i failed to include
almost disturbing looking in pic i posted, heres another

 

[hinmo24t]

here is the sapling i have been going since springtime

very stoked on this one

its from the trees above, true leaf to the right of the plants leafs.

have 3 of them going but this is the strong one

 

[Dav4]

One of my favorite smaller landscape maples.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

That 'natures beadwork" is probably a "frost crack" sometimes in autumn or in late winter, a rapid change in temperature dropping below freezing catches the maple with too much water, and expanding water as it freezes to ice ruptures the bark. Normally a problem only in young trees, the rupture leaves that type of scar but it usually heals over and does not re-occur as the tree gets larger. Usually. Sometimes the frost crack can become the entry point for disease. Sometimes they do re-occur, but usually it is just at a certain size that a tree is susceptible to frost cracking. Older trees become "immune" to it.

 

[hinmo24t]

That 'natures beadwork" is probably a "frost crack" sometimes in autumn or in late winter, a rapid change in temperature dropping below freezing catches the maple with too much water, and expanding water as it freezes to ice ruptures the bark. Normally a problem only in young trees, the rupture leaves that type of scar but it usually heals over and does not re-occur as the tree gets larger. Usually. Sometimes the frost crack can become the entry point for disease. Sometimes they do re-occur, but usually it is just at a certain size that a tree is susceptible to frost cracking. Older trees become "immune" to it.

that tree has been thru days of single digit temperatures in its lifetime! i bet youre correct about your post

 

[Ohmy222]

I had a small one a few years ago that died. Very pretty landscape trees. Seems like you could make a nice forest out them even though the trifoliate leaf pattern would be challenging to work with. These are very hard to propagate (have never tried). They are known to throw out tons of sterile seeds so you plant 100 and might only get 1 or 2 seedlings. Supposed to be difficult from cuttings too. Don't believe you can graft them on anything but themselves either.

 

[hinmo24t]

I had a small one a few years ago that died. Very pretty landscape trees. Seems like you could make a nice forest out them even though the trifoliate leaf pattern would be challenging to work with. These are very hard to propagate (have never tried). They are known to throw out tons of sterile seeds so you plant 100 and might only get 1 or 2 seedlings. Supposed to be difficult from cuttings too. Don't believe you can graft them on anything but themselves either.

true story