The big leaf maple can grow up to 114 ft tall. When it is young it has smooth green bark but when it is older it’s terns a dark brown and it gets ridges. loads of moss, lichen, and ferns grow on it. It has big green leaves with 5 lobes when in fall before they fall they turn a beautiful orange. In spring the trees get light green blossoms. they are edible and they have a nutty taste. (plant card)

You can collect and make a salad out of the flowers,using the you can use the wood to smoke fish and meat, the leaves can protect your food from the ground, the inner bark can be eaten,you can carve the wood to make guitars as well. (plant card)

Where can I find it you may find it in low and mid level elevation in coastal ranges like Alaska through California the big leaf maple gross very fast when it is young but it grows pretty slowly when it gets older. the growth rate is the same as the red alder. (plant card burke)