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Silver maple
| Silver maple | ||||||||||||||
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| Acer saccharinum |
The silver maple, Acer saccharinum, is a large tree of North American riparian zones. It is fast-growing, with brittle wood. The roots and shallow and fibrous and easily invade septic fields and old drain pipes. It is, nonetheless, popular as a street and yard tree because of its rapid growth and ease of propagation and transplanting.
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