Trees are all around us but unless you are really good at botany, it is hard to recognize all the different kinds of trees. Even something as common, in the United States, as a Maple tree can be tough to recognize. There are different varieties of maples. Simply knowing the Toronto Maple Leafs logo is not enough to pick out the different Maple Trees by their leaves.
I wrote an article on my blog, TurtleDogs blog that will teach you what a silver maple tree looks like. Check it out. I linked it below.

This sounds an incredibly odd combination but bearing in mind we all happily eat carrot cake and, during the war when sugar was rationed, many a desperate housewife with confectionary starved kids turned to sweeter root vegetables as a substitute, for example carrot, parsnip and beetroot, then maybe it's not as weird as it sounds