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[ID] Tridents or Liquid Ambers?

Posted: January 30th, 2014, 7:58 pm
by Aquaman
Hi

I introduced myself in The Bonsai Cafe and posted some pics of what I thought were Liquid Amber seedlings.

Boics suggested that they might be Trident Maples, so I thought I would post some "better" pics here and hope you can ID them.

Tree 1 - I believe this is a Liquid Amber because the leaves are large and some have five points:
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Tree 1 - Leaf close up:
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Tree 2 - This is the suspect Trident:
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Tree 2 - Leaf close up:
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Would be interested to hear your thoughts.

Cheers.

Re: [ID] Tridents or Liquid Ambers?

Posted: January 30th, 2014, 8:03 pm
by Bougy Fan
I believe they are LA - I am swayed more by the trunk than the leaves

Re: [ID] Tridents or Liquid Ambers?

Posted: January 30th, 2014, 8:26 pm
by Josh
Bougy Fan wrote:I believe they are LA - I am swayed more by the trunk than the leaves
I second that :tu:

Josh

Re: [ID] Tridents or Liquid Ambers?

Posted: January 30th, 2014, 8:36 pm
by DustyRusty
Tree 1= LA
Tree 2= Trident Maple

:imo:

Re: [ID] Tridents or Liquid Ambers?

Posted: January 30th, 2014, 8:48 pm
by lakepipes
I agree with Dusty.

1 LA and 2 Trident.

Re: [ID] Tridents or Liquid Ambers?

Posted: January 30th, 2014, 10:08 pm
by kcpoole
DustyRusty wrote:Tree 1= LA
Tree 2= Trident Maple

:imo:
I agree

Ken

Re: [ID] Tridents or Liquid Ambers?

Posted: January 30th, 2014, 10:33 pm
by Boics
You know my thoughts.

But to elaborate on what I see here.
Check out both leaves, trunk and in particular note the different way that the leaves come off the trunk.
#1 parts staggered while #2 parts the trunk evenly in pairs.

These are two different trees.

LA and trident IMO.

Re: [ID] Tridents or Liquid Ambers?

Posted: January 31st, 2014, 3:31 pm
by Aquaman
Thanks for all the feedback everyone.

Its seems we all agree that Tree 1 is a Liquid Amber.

On closer inspection its clear that Tree 2 is not the same, so I can only assume its a Trident. I didn't plant anything else in this batch.

I like them all so I will keep growing and enjoying them.

Cheers.