Snakebark Maple 'Silver Vein'
Growth habit
Tree
Perennation
Long-lived polycarpic perennial
Location
Source of plant
Collector's Nursery
Description
Medium-sized, slender tree or multistemmed shrub to 10m tall. Trunks and branches very heavily striped with white on a blue-green bark. Leaves large, 12-20cm long, 10-15cm wide, 3 lobed, outer lobes underdeveloped, glabrous, undersides light green. Petioles red, 4-10cm long. Inflorescences terminal and racemose, up to 15cm long. This hybrid was found in Hilliers' nurseries about 1960 and named about 1975. It was supposed to be a hybrid betweeen A. pensylvanicum and A. pectinatum ssp. laxiflorium; in fact, it is a seeding from the cross between A. davidii 'George Forrest' and A. pensylvanicum 'Erythrocladum'. It is a very valuable plant, worthy of a place in the garden. It has the most conspicuous bark of all snakebark maples.
USDA Hardiness Zone
5
Special characteristics
bark