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National Champion Striped Maple Acer pensylvanicum Maple Family — Maple Genus Bailey Arboretum, Locust Valley Nassau County, New York Circumference = 50 inches Height = 77 feet Average Crown Spread = 28 feet Total Points = 134 Nominated: 1991 by: Ted Kozlowski & F. Dearstyne Cloned: April 1999 by: David Yarrow

The Striped Maple, also called Moosewood and Whistlewood, is an often shrubby tree that is one of the most attractive and distinctive trees in the forests of the Northeast and Appalachians. This tree rarely exceeds 30 feet in height, posesses rare beauty and deserves widespread ornamental planting.

Striped Maple's favorite habitat is moist, rich soils of cool, shaded mountain slopes and ravines from sea level to 3,300 feet in its southern range. It is found from Nova Scotia to eastern Minnesota, and south to Pennsylvania, and at higher elevations south Georgia. It is common in northern New York, and rarer to the west and south. It grows in association with sugar maple, beech, yellow birch, eastern hemlock, and balsam fir.

Flowering is in early spring, with fruits maturing in late spring. Grouse, rodents and songbirds eat the fruits, grouse also eat the buds, and whitetail deer and moose browse the young twigs and leaves. Rabbits, beavers, deer, and moose eat the bark, especially in winter. The bright green bark with conspicuous white, lengthwise stripes readily distinguishes young striped maples from other species.

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TERRA: The Earth Restoration and Reforestation Alliance — www.championtrees.org — updated 8/14/2003