This maple is showing its attractive striated bark in the Autumn Garden.
One of several snakebark maples, the green-tinted bark of ‘Silver Vein’ is punctuated with distinctive silver-grey streaks which run lengthwise along the trunk and stems. This is a selection of a hybrid of A. davidii ‘George Forrest’ and A. pennsylvanicum ‘Erythrocladum’, and was raised at Hilliers Nursery in 1961. The large lobed leaves are held on contrasting red petiole and take on a rich butter colour in autumn. Reaching 8m in height ‘Silver Vein’ is a valuable specimen tree for autumn, but it arguably provides greatest interest in winter when the bark can be best appreciated.