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I see what you mean. Attached is a picture of my Japanese maple that I know is a Japanese maple. Interesting about all the different maples. I'll have to do more research.
I hope you won't take this amiss but that leaf from your Japanese maple has mites on it as well as a couple of mite predators that have been attracted by the mites. When the picture is magnified I can see the mites' webbings and the scars on the leaf, as well as the legs of the predators hiding under the leaf. You might want to hose down the tree thoroughly with water to get rid of all the bugs.
I hope you won't take this amiss but that leaf from your Japanese maple has mites on it as well as a couple of mite predators that have been attracted by the mites. When the picture is magnified I can see the mites' webbings and the scars on the leaf, as well as the legs of the predators hiding under the leaf. You might want to hose down the tree thoroughly with water to get rid of all the bugs.
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EW!!! It's a baby plant, super zoomed in, so is that still a "tree"? hehe I will definitely get that taken care of today. I was wondering what that was. Thank you for letting me know I just assumed it was a spider making a web. I'm so grossed out now. Yuck.
They don't look like maple leaves to me ..... unless maybe it's some kind of Japanese maple. What colour is the stem that the leaves are growing out of? Is it red? If it's red I guess it could be some kind of ornamental maple because a red stem is common with most baby maples, even if the stem changes colour later.
But maple leaves are usually very symmetrical in their form and outline with all sides matching and those leaves are not very symmetrical in their outline so I have my doubts.
Is there any fuzz on the leaves? If there is any fuzz at all on the leaves or stem then it definitely is not any kind of maple.
They do bear a striking resemblance to the leaves of several species of buttercups and other ranunculus plants in the Ranunculaceae family and when I first saw the picture that was the first impression that came to mind.
They also bear a resemblance to some types of motherwort.
It won't hurt to let it grow for another couple of weeks in that pot. By then there will be more indicators to give you a positive ID and then you can decide what to do with it.
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I'll check the stem color and fuzziness (or lack thereof) later today and get back to you. There's so many trees behind me, it could be any of them. It just looked more like my baby maple, so that's what I thought it might be (or related to it).
The first couple of leaves produced by a maple seedling look non standard (not just like miniature versions of the mature leaf), but they are usually not so deeply dentate, much less heavily dissected like the seedling in your picture. At least the Norway, Sugar, and Rock maples I am familiar with.
Japanese maples and box elder are more dentate in their seedlings, but not even quite like in the OP example.
Here is a Norway maple seedling and Sugar maple seedlings look very similar, I think.
They don't look like maple leaves to me ..... unless maybe it's some kind of Japanese maple. What colour is the stem that the leaves are growing out of? Is it red? If it's red I guess it could be some kind of ornamental maple because a red stem is common with most baby maples, even if the stem changes colour later.
But maple leaves are usually very symmetrical in their form and outline with all sides matching and those leaves are not very symmetrical in their outline so I have my doubts.
Is there any fuzz on the leaves? If there is any fuzz at all on the leaves or stem then it definitely is not any kind of maple.
They do bear a striking resemblance to the leaves of several species of buttercups and other ranunculus plants in the Ranunculaceae family and when I first saw the picture that was the first impression that came to mind.
They also bear a resemblance to some types of motherwort.
It won't hurt to let it grow for another couple of weeks in that pot. By then there will be more indicators to give you a positive ID and then you can decide what to do with it.
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The stem is red and there is no fuzz on the leaves. Maybe I'll just need to wait and see, as you stated.
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