I put the question out to the

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Registered: 05-25-1999
I put the question out to the
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Sun, 05-18-2003 - 10:58am
Gardnening board on the name of my little maple. I looked at the Gureney's catalog online and couldn't find it. But then only the name Gurney's is the same not the company...if something hits you about what it is let me know..

As I remember it something like gnuella or gunella with maple after it.

Anyway the wind is blowing so hard right now you can't smell anything outside.

I better get busy and do something even if it is wrong......Janet
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Registered: 08-05-1999
Sun, 05-18-2003 - 11:21am
Idea!

http://www.arapcsuext.org/horti/TreeID/treemasterpics/Maple/mapleleaves/maplemaster.html

http://www.treehelp.com/trees/maple/maple-types.asp

I know nothing about trees but one of these sites may lead you to the correct information.

F.

 

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 05-18-2003 - 1:28pm
Hi Janet. I'll never have a family reunion - no family to speak of - lol. But, maybe one day one of my brood might. I'm going to check the site out just in case.

We have a variety of maples here but none with a name anything like that. What characteristics does the tree have (other than the maple leaves (:)). We have one, a Schryder maple, that has dark red leaves in the spring, which lighten to a glossy green in the summer and turn scarlet in the fall. It's quite beautiful but it doesn't do well in high winds as the branches tend to grow long and gangly and the trunk tends to split at the first juncture. DH drilled through the 2 main branches and put a steel rod right through and bolted it on the other side. He did that 10 years ago and it's still in the tree, and it stopped it from splitting down the middle of the trunk, which is the ussual fate of that particulr tree in our area. Upper branches regularly split off, though, in a high wind.

Have fun in the wind ... don't get blown away.

JJ

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Registered: 10-19-2000
Sun, 05-18-2003 - 10:14pm
Maybe this one: Amur or ginnala maple is another maple suitable for small areas. It has beautiful red, orange or yellow fall color. It is not as well adapted to Colorado because it suffers from iron and other nutrient deficiencies resulting in yellow summer foliage.

http://www.greendealer-exotic-seeds.com/seeds/AmurMaple.html

http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Trees/amurmple.htm

Kt

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 05-19-2003 - 12:33am
Now this is driving me mad. I really do have that tree. But the leaves are small, the flowers look like the ones shown on that one page. But the seeds for this tree are smaller and the leaves don't turn red in the fall they get yellow. They are kind of red when they first come out. You know how that song goes around in your head but you can't think of the name????? then you know what it is doing to me....lol....Janet

 


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