Bailey from TN Nursery found a red maple with entirely black bark in a batch of 10,000 seedlings. It's a rare genetic pigmentation variant, not a disease, and the tree grows like any other maple. The nursery is propagating it and offering buy-one-get-one-free.
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¡Hey everyone! It's Bailey with TN Nursery, and I want to show you something really cool today. What you see here is two bare root red maple trees, and you see there's one with brown bark, which is normal, and there's one with completely black bark, which is insanely rare. Red maple bark is usually a gray to a brown color, so this black bark is extremely rare. It doesn't come from a disease, it's a genetic that causes higher pigmentation concentrate in the outer cells. This tree come out of a roll of 10,000 maples and it is the only one that has this beautiful black bark. Many nurseries will grow hundreds of thousands without seeing one of these. The tree functions just as well as the regular barked one, but it is a completely different color. We're going to take this tree and we're going to try to grow it and see what becomes of it, because this is a truly one in a million find. This is awesome. Order now at tianursery.net and get you some red maple trees. We have a buy one get one free sale going on, and you just can't beat our prices. But I figured that was just too cool not to show y'all how this genetic thing works and how rare it can be. Shop now at tnursery.net.