Need some help from an arborist

[Lee Schierer]

I have two red maple trees in my front yard planted about 35 feet apart.
The bark on this tree looks pretty normal.
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The bark on this second tree has large bark scales curling up from the trunk.
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Is this normal for a maple tree, if not is there anything that I should do to cure whatever is wrong with the tree?

[Mel Fulks]

Looks to me like both are too far in the ground. You should be able to see a flare all the way around, that area is like
a tree thermostat . I would remove some dirt.

[Jim Becker]

To my eyes, they are different species...

[Adam Herman]

im with jim, maybe a silver and a norway? have to see the leaves.

[Mel Fulks]

Look different , but that is possible even if the seeds came from same tree. That's why nursurys graft .

[Dennis Peacock]

Can you post close pics of the leaves?

[Andrew Seemann]

Any chance the second one is a silver maple? That is similar to what the bark looks like on mine. I can't quite see if the leaves are different on the two trees.

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[Lee Schierer]

Can you post close pics of the leaves?

Here is a photo of the leaves. The one on the left is from the shaggy bark tree, the one on the right is from the smoother bark tree.
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Apparently they are different trees. I never actually put the leaves side by side before this.

[Tony Zona]

Isn’t anybody going to ask what that can is hanging in that second tree? It looks like a muffler.

I’m no help on the tree species. I have one with bark like that, but its a hickory and quite big.

[Adam Herman]

Isn’t anybody going to ask what that can is hanging in that second tree? It looks like a muffler.

I’m no help on the tree species. I have one with bark like that, but its a hickory and quite big.

the bird house? seems perfectly normal to hang from a tree if one is a bird house.

[Lee Schierer]

Isn’t anybody going to ask what that can is hanging in that second tree? It looks like a muffler.

It is a bird house made from 4 inch pvc drain pipe. Wrens and Chickadees use them. I have several hanging from trees around the property. If you look closely at the first photo there is a white bird house hanging from a branch in the upper right corner of that tree as well.

[Andrew Seemann]

I'm guessing the leaf on the left is a Red maple, and the one on the right is a Sugar maple.

[Tom Bender]

Neither is Sugar, Silver, Japanese, Striped, Norway or Sycamore Maple. There are many more that I'm not familiar with. The shaggy bark tree is probably an exotic in your area.

[Lee Schierer]

The smoother bark tree is definitely Red Maple.
My Red Maple Leaf ------- Exemplar Red Maple Leaf
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Here is the other leaf from my yard....Different exemplar of red maple
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It appears that both could be Red Maples, but the difference in bark is strange.

[Jim Becker]

There are so many variants of Maple (and other species) that sometimes it can make one's head spin! They tend to get grouped together sometimes from a practical perspective with some entities that sell trees, too.