Sugar maple is a magnificent forest tree abundant everywhere in the State outside of Long Island. Besides providing beautiful borders to many miles of highway, and hundreds of thousands of gallons of maple syrup, it yields a wood of high grade.
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maple.dnr.cornell.edu/kids/tree_sug.htm
maple.dnr.cornell.edu/kids/tree_sug.htm
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Identifying a tree as a sugar or black maple (Table 3.2, Figure 3.2 & 3.3) is easily done from the leaves by observing 5-lobed leaves, the paired opposite attachment of the leaves along the stem and the lack of teeth along the leaf margin;
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www.massmaple.org/treeID.html
www.massmaple.org/treeID.html
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Maple-Trees.com - The Best Place Online to find Information about Maple Trees Black Maple - Acer nigrum; The Black Maple is also know under the names: Black Sugar Maple, Hard Maple and Rock Maple. The Black maple tree is closely related to the sugar maple with a similar habit related culture and dispersion.
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www.maple-trees.com/
www.maple-trees.com/
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The pictures above show the Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall habit of the Acer saccharum - Sugar Maple Tree. Pictures are of the same tree, taken from different positions. Notice how the lower branches get closer to the ground as the seasons progress.
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www.treetopics.com/acer_saccharum/index.htm
www.treetopics.com/acer_saccharum/index.htm
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The Sugar Maple tree is one of America's most loved trees. Here is a tree that lives to serve! Perhaps it is best known for its syrup, or Syrop as the...
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www.arborday.org/TREES/treeguide/treeDetail.cfm?id=14
www.arborday.org/TREES/treeguide/treeDetail.cfm?id=14
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Introduction, with pictures, to maple trees as fall foliage specimens. Red maples' fall foliage described, as well as sugar maples, Norways and Amurs.
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landscaping.about.com/cs/fallfoliagetrees/a/fall_foliag...
landscaping.about.com/cs/fallfoliagetrees/a/fall_foliage7.htm
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Planting or other special regenerative measures are rarely needed for sugar maple in New England or the Lake States where the tree grows naturally. The largest reported sugar maple tree, growing near Kitzmiller, MD, has a d.b.h. of 209 cm (82.1 in), is 23.8 m (78 ft) tall, and has a crown spread of 20.1 m (66 ft) (1).
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www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/acer...
www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/acer/saccharum.htm
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A decorative bottle of golden maple syrup and a sugar maple tree (Acer saccharum) during the fall in Indiana. Maple syrup is tapped from the sapwood during early spring (March-April) when the ground is thawing and the sap is flowing.
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waynesword.palomar.edu/trjuly99.htm
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Sugar maple is the only tree today used for commercial syrup production, as its sap has twice the sugar content of other maple species. The sap, mostly collected in the spring, is concentrated by boiling or reverse osmosis, with about 35-40 liters of sap making Find fascinating facts about your favorite plants and trees.
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fact-sheets.com/plants/2006/05/sugar-maple.html
fact-sheets.com/plants/2006/05/sugar-maple.html
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