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NGLittleSeedlingsNGLittleSeedlings Posts: 729
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Hello,
can anyone help me identify these seeds and the matching leaf? My parents have asked me to propagate them for them but the plant they came from didn’t have a label! I originally thought it was a sycamore but the place where they saw the plant stated that it wasn’t although the seed ppds are similar. 
They did originally think it may be from the mulberry family but judging from the leaf I’m not so sure .... any help would be greatly appreciated so I can try and sow the seeds accordingly, always worth a try! 
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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Possibly Acer davidii, or one of its cultivars, like this one? Do you know what the bark looks like?

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • NGLittleSeedlingsNGLittleSeedlings Posts: 729
    From what they remember it was a flakey, clay coloured like bark. 
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I'd sow them. They are an Acer, nothing else has seeds like that. Mulberry has berries. Sow them now and leave them outside, if they are ripe and fertile they will germinate in spring


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Could be Acer davidii then.  I was going by the leaf shape.  At first I was thinking field maple but I don't think the leaves are right for that.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    A photo of the plant with twigs and a few more leaves would be helpful.


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • NGLittleSeedlingsNGLittleSeedlings Posts: 729
    Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of the plant as my parents who asked me to propagate it didn’t take any and just brought the one leaf from where they got it. Helpful I know haha I agree though I didn’t think it was a mulberry either. 
  • BeefleyBeefley Posts: 52
    Could also be acer griseum?  Have a quick look on Google - leaf shape looks right and if it is you may recognise the distinctive peeling bark
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited November 2018
    Please can we see more pics to show the leaves.
    Acer griseum is trifoliate...it has 3 leaflets.

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paperbark_Maple_Acer_griseum_Leaves_Closeup_2856px.jpg
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • NGLittleSeedlingsNGLittleSeedlings Posts: 729
    Silver surfer I’m afraid that’s the only leaf I was given from the plant, I was given that and the seeds to propagate, nothing else.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Hard to help without more info.
    It is not Acer campestre...field maple...leaf not right.


    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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