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bigcityal Appleton, WI(Zone 5a) Jun 17, 2006

This is a cramped/diseased/unhappy columnar Norway Maple. This is on my neighbor's property and isn't really of any vaue except of visual interest.
Here is what it looks like.

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bigcityal Appleton, WI(Zone 5a) Jun 17, 2006

Here's a closer look. Who knows what this tree is growing either behind an old garage.

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Ivy1 Mystic, CT(Zone 6b) Jun 17, 2006

Aaaaaaggghh. Norway Maple. Put it out of it's misery. It will probably be here long after you and I are dust.....

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Ivy1 Mystic, CT(Zone 6b) Jun 17, 2006

The garage will be gone and that thing will still be growing.....

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bigcityal Appleton, WI(Zone 5a) Jun 17, 2006

These are the same varmints that were growing through my cyclone fence when we bought our house.

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Ivy1 Mystic, CT(Zone 6b) Jun 17, 2006

Here is one of the two growing on either side of our house. Notice the tiny patio to the left.

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Penn_Pete Glen Rock, PA Jun 17, 2006

Looks like chemical damage. I have several farm fields adjacent to me, and depending on what is sprayed, some of the plants react differently. I find that some years the leaves on the maples are almost all affected (esp. years when soybeans are grown, and Acer griseum seems most affected). This year, all the maples look fine, but one shrub far from the fields almost collapsed. The drift went through a line of Viburnums, willows and a dozen other species without so much as curling a leaf. For some reson it got to the Pheasant's Eye (the shrub, not Adonis species) and burned all the old leaves and all the emerging buds. Plant is recovering nicely.

The maple weed in your photo shows classic 2-4-D symptoms. Any corn fields about?

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bigcityal Appleton, WI(Zone 5a) Jun 17, 2006

No corn about, who knows what has been put back there in the past. It has very little space there and will be totally white with mildew once humidity get here.

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