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Re: acer triflorum/griseum

>>  I live in Waterloo, IL, just east of St. Louis.  Last year, I found, at
>>a St. Louis nursery, A. griseum in 1 gallon containers.  They had about
>>ten of them, but only 2 had really outstanding bark, so I bought those
>>two.  I have read that A griseum's peeling-bark tendency is highly
>>variable and also that it develops at an early age-so what you see is what
>>you get.  Also, it is difficult to propagate by asexual means, so there
>>are no cultivars  available.  Based on what I saw when I found mine, the
>>bark characteristics are so variable that  I don't think I would buy this
>>plant mail-order unless desperate.

I have a 6 year old A. griseum that I ordered from Arborvillage Nursery in
Holt, MO.  It is probably a good 15 ft tall.  What I have noticed is that
the bark seems to exfoliate at different times depending on the age of the
branch.  At this time, the main trunk (about 2.5 inches in diameter) is
perfectly smooth, while some of the upper branches of an inch or so in
diameter are exfoliating nicely.  The lower trunk does exfoliate each year,
but as I recall, it does so later.  I guess the bottom line here is that
young specimens may be variable in their exfoliation.  I have never heard
of anyone that had a non-exfoliating A. griseum.

Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin


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