Q: Over the last couple of years, our Norway and Sunset maples have developed long, vertical splits in the bark. These splits ... One Sunset maple is on the west, the other on the east.

Q: I have a 'Red Sunset' maple tree that has what looks to be split bark on the south side of the trunk. It is a relatively young tree, and I do not want to lose it. I'm attaching a photo so you ...

Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is a deciduous tree also referred to as hard maple or rock maple ... White-tailed deer, moose, porcupine, squirrels and snowshoe hare commonly eat the bark, twigs, or ...

The red maple ... bark is highly susceptible to sunscald, and these trees are very short-lived here. Maybe they work better somewhere else in the country, but I doubt it. I learned the hard ...

The bark is gray and scaly with furrows and ... buckeye a decorative shade tree Other names for this tree are hard maple and rock maple due to its dense and fine-grained wood prized for furniture ...