
This is the tree planted every forty feet through central Indiana neighborhoods built from the 1960s into the 1990s, and the one arborists most often find strangled by its own roots. Snap a leaf stem to settle the ID in ten seconds: Norway maple bleeds opaque milky white latex from the petiole where sugar maple runs clear and watery.
Medium tree · $250–$1,400 typical
Also searched as Crimson King maple, harlequin maple, Schwedler maple, Acer platanoides; frequently misidentified as sugar maple.