Maple disappointment!
I’ve been laboring under the delusion that I was growing a Rocky Mountain Maple from seed I collected up American Fork Canyon. Well, I now think this is probably just a lousy Box Elder tree. It’s awfully similar to the small Box Elder I was growing in a pot until someone at GardenWeb identified it for me. Darn it! This isn’t what I wanted! When I was trying to sprout these seeds, I had the little pots outside. A Box Elder seed must have just fallen into the pot. What a bummer.
Yes, it is definitely a box elder. That is really too bad. Keep going and good luck in your efforts to sprout a true Rocky Mountain Maple.
I’m pretty sure now that it’s a Box Elder, and perhaps this weekend, it’ll get “shovel pruned!”
I posted on GardenWeb about this, and a few think it’s not Box Elder, but one thinks it might be. I think I’ll wait and see its fall color and whether any box elder bugs get on it before I decide what to do.