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In the eastern forests where they live, white-tailed deer often browse striped maple leaves or rub their antlers on its bark.

Among a small flock of songbirds, a black-throated blue warbler ate a green caterpillar from a striped maple.

It then crosses Jordan Stream on a wooden bridge and wends through stands of cedar and striped maple on a graded gravel path.

As they tell all who show even a passing interest, striped maple makes the best fighting sticks and white pines are the best climbing trees.

Here and there, striped maple stroked the sky with striped shoots of pale green and gray.