Snake Bark Maple Seeds?

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Hi all.

I have a snake Bark Maple sitting in the garden for a few years. I just noticed that it looks like it's making seeds at the moment. Does anyone know if these snake Bark Maple seeds copy the parent plant? Or are they more generic like acer palmatum?
 

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I think "snakebark" is not a species.. but a more common genetic deviation amongst Acers in general. (QUITE POSSIBLY only some)...(I may not be right)

This would mean(if I WAS correct) that while being slightly more prone to this variation... it is not a guarantee... some Acers will "lean" harder toward varying attributes.

It would be helpful to know what actual species it is.. or if Snakebark IS a species and I'm just a doofus..

Read up and get back to us!

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In my experience "snakebark maple" is another name for acer pensylvanicum, the striped maple. Others call it moosewood, or as I like to call it, nature's toilet paper.
 

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Wiki. Acer pensylvanicum, known as the striped maple, moosewood, moose maple or goosefoot maple, is a small North American species of maple. The striped maple is a sequential hermaphrodite, meaning that it can change its sex throughout its lifetime.

Acer pensylvanicum
Moosewood leaves.jpg
 

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Thanks for all the replies. It does look like a Pensylvanicum. The leaves are far too large for bonsai. I was considering giving it away to free up space but the seeds had me wondering what the future might hold if I was to hold onto it.
 

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AFAIK, ALL maples produce samara regardless of the state of flower pollination. If the flowers were not pollinated, the seeds will not have an embryo and will be hollow. Further, I believe that self-pollination is extremely rare - that is pollen from another tree of the same (or very closely related) species.
 

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AFAIK, ALL maples produce samara regardless of the state of flower pollination. If the flowers were not pollinated, the seeds will not have an embryo and will be hollow. Further, I believe that self-pollination is extremely rare - that is pollen from another tree of the same (or very closely related) species.
Whoah, 0so!... I JUST saw your AHS.. Dang! I'm 2 or 3 depending which direction I spit.

Without looking (just KNOWING 'WA'), I'm gonna guess INNER WA... like high elevation?

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Without looking (just KNOWING 'WA'), I'm gonna guess INNER WA... like high elevation
On an island surrounded by 50 degree salt water. My garden sits roughly 50 feet above MASL.
It rarely gets much above 70F because of it. If it weren't for a 7 -10 days of a NE wind blowing down the Frazier River Valley in BC, it would never freeze in my garden either.
Very boring.

BTW, just clicking on my location (below my avatar) will open Google maps and show you where I am (similarly for any BNutter)..
 
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