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Index of Subjects Yesterday at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Sackville, Don & Lois Codling and myself were enjoying an unusual species of maple that none of us readily recognized. I decided to key it out and was able to identify it as Amur Maple, Acer ginnala. Amur maple is treated by some as a subspecies of Tatar Maple Acer tataricum which looks similar, however I believe the bush/tree we saw was Amur Maple for the following reasons: 1. Amur Maple leaves are narrower than the wider Tatar Maple. 2. Amur Maple and its cultivars are more often found in cultivation than Tatar Maple. 3. This tree's keys were a bright pink red and Amur Maple cultivars often sport bright pink red keys that earn them the nick name of Ruby Slippers Maple. Its keys like all maples start of green then turn pink red at their peak and then fading to pale brown. Pics of its leaves and keys can be found on the new Halifax Field Naturalist Facebook Page.
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