Silver Maple - Acer saccharinum
Silver Maple is a very vigorous deciduous tree with deeply palmately-lobed leaves, silvery-white beneath, turning red and yellow in autumn; small yellow-green flowers appear before the leaves.
A cultivated species which is occasionally found away from parks and gardens.
Flowers early to mid spring.
Deciduous tree.
Very occasionally from away from cultivation.
Rarely recorded away from cultivation in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Craig Mabbett
Broughton Astley Park
24 August 2016
Craig Mabbett
Broughton Astley Park
24 August 2016
underside
David Nicholls
Leicester, Evington Park
17 July 2021
Saharima Roenisch
Spinney Hill Park
01 July 2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- Silver Maple
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Sapindales
- Family:
- Sapindaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 29
- First record:
- 24/08/2016 (Mabbett, Craig)
- Last record:
- 06/05/2025 (Calow, Graham)
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Craig Mabbett
Broughton Astley Park
24 August 2016
Saharima Roenisch
Knighton Park
15 June 2017
Saharima Roenisch
Spinney Hill Park
01 July 2017
underside of leaf
Saharima Roenisch
Leicester Abbey Park
10 July 2019
Saharima Roenisch
Evington Park
25 June 2017
Vasates quadripedes
The mite Vasates quadripedes causes galls to form on the leaf veins or leaf blades of Silver Maple, but possibly on other similar ornamental Maple species. The galls are round or elongate, shiny, and with a rather knobbly appearance. They are quite large being 1.5 to 5 mm high and may be yellowish green or bright red at first, becoming darker red or black with age. There may be numerous galls on the same leaf.