Striped Maple
Acer pensylvanicum
Summary 6
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple, also known as moosewood and moose maple) is a small North American species of maple.
Taxon biology 7
William J. Gabriel and Russell S. Walters
Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum) (8), also called moosewood, is a small tree or large shrub identified by its conspicuous vertical white stripes on greenish-brown bark. It grows best on shaded, cool northern slopes of upland valleys where it is common on welldrained sandy loams in small forest openings or as an understory tree in mixed hardwoods. This very slow growing maple may live to be 100 and is probably most important as a browse plant for wildlife, although the tree is sometimes planted as an ornamental in heavily shaded areas (33,37).
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