Maple from Georgia

[LEGIONNAIRE]

hello folks I have a friend who recently went to Georgia. He found some trees that look to be maple. They are straight and the leaves look like maple. I was wondering if georgia has predominately rock maple or sugar maple? also how good is sugar maple and rock maple. I have only used maple in  board form so I was wondering what your guys experience was.

[Pat B]

Probably most of the maples in GA are red maples, a softer maple. Might be more sugar maple in North GA. Sugar maple has a shaggy bark and red maple has smooth bark. Be sure he wasn't looking at sweetgum. It might make a bow if you could split it.  It is worse than elm to split. Sweetgum has a furrowed bark.

[blackhawk]

Uh...rock maple IS sugar maple...lol....same tree Cesar  ...other than what pat described for bark,the leafs are pretty easy to distinguish between one of the "soft" maples(red,silver,etc...) do your leaf search n find pics...hard maple is the only maple with a round between each lobe point on the leaf and has five points

[Olanigw (Pekane)]

When someone makes a positive ID, could we use the latin name for trees?  It helps to clear confusion

[Pat B]

Pekane, good luck with the botanical manes. I've been trying for years to get folks to use botanical names.

[Olanigw (Pekane)]

Pat, I hear you...  at least these days we have google-fu to help clear things up.  I'd say we can start the revolution but it's been 10 years for me and no dice.