In the forests of the Northeast, red maple is the most common. If you have any questions regarding wildlife, trees, forest management, wood products, natural resource planning or other natural resource topics, feel free to contact us by using our Ask an Expert web page. The leaves of sugar maple, on the other hand, generally turn yellow or golden in the fall, and sugar maples have brown twigs and buds. This species also is susceptible to leaf scorch, verticillium wilt, tar spot and anthracnose and can be affected by borers and cottony maple scale.įor full article with additional photos view: Intro to Trees of Indiana: Sugar Maple The Morton Arboretum warns again pruning maps in the spring as they are ‘bleeders’ and will lose large amounts of sap. The yield of sugar maples is one of the highest among maple trees. (In the fall, sugar maples are likely to look multicolored, showing green as well as hints of yellow, orange, and/or red as their chlorophyll recedes.) The few sugar maples we have are out in the open, and so have. Sugar maples produce maple sap, which can be used to make maple syrup. The leaf of a sugar maple is 3-5 inches wide and has 5 lobes, with a smooth, curved edge where the leaf of the red maple is jagged. It grows on approximately 12.5 million hectares (31 million acres) or 9 percent of the hardwood land and has a net. Sugar maples grow 60 to 75 feet tall and can be 40 to 50 feet wide, providing excellent shade with their full foliage. Sugar maple (Acer saccharum), sometimes called hard maple or rock maple, is one of the largest and more important of the hardwoods. The seed or fruit of sugar maple is a winged seed which occurs in pairs and turned from green to brown when mature. It can range from relatively smooth on saplings to minor crevices and ridging on medium sized trees to deeper ridges on older trees. The bark of sugar maple typically has a light to medium gray color, but its appearance is variable and somewhat confusing. The leaves produce brilliant fall colors ranging from yellow to burnt orange. The thin twigs are green in their youth, turning to a medium brown as they age. The shade-tolerant species has opposite leaf arrangement with relatively long leaf stems as well as opposite branch arrangement. This tree, also called hard maple, has simple leaves typically with five lobes, two smaller lobes at the base and three larger lobes at the top, with u-shaped sinuses between the lobes. This week, we introduce the sugar maple or Acer saccharum. Commemoration Sugar Maple has thick, heavy leaves that are resistant to leaf tatter and will look great all through summer. Each week, the Intro to Trees of Indiana web series will offer a sneak peek at one species from the book, paired with an ID That Tree video from Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee to help visualize each species as it stands in the woods. Threats to species health as well as also insight into the wood provided by the species, will be provided through additional resources as well as the Hardwoods of the Central Midwest exhibit of the Purdue Arboretum, if available.
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