Sugar maple

Sugar Maple Tree Picture Gallery
If you've ever seen one in the fall, you are sure to want a Sugar Maple tree picture to enjoy its splendor over and over again.

Sugar Maple
Sugar Maple
Photo courtesy USDA Plants Database
Flora, fauna, earth, and sky...
The natural history of the northwoods ...

Sugar Maple
(Acer saccharum Marshall.)
LEAVES: Opposite, simple, 5-lobed with few large teeth, about 4" wide, bright green above, pale green below. Leaves turn bright yellow, orange or red in autumn.

The sugar maple leaf is easily recognizable as the stylized, three-lobed leaf on the Canadian flag.

Sugar Maple, Rock Maple
Maple trees include a broad spectrum of types, sizes, shapes and foliage. They are evergreen or deciduous, shrubby or lofty, with deeply lobed or finely cut leaves.

Sugar Maple, Black maple, Black sugar maple, Hard maple, Rock maple, Trident Maple
Common Names in German:
Zuckerahorn ...

( Legacy Sugar Maple )
Acer saccharum is a large maple best known as the source of maple syrup. 'Legacy' has a dense, oval to rounded form, reaching 60 to 75 feet tall, occasionally 120 feet tall, and is resistant to drought and leaf tatter.

Bowling alleys and bowling pins are usually made of sugar maple wood, along with basketball courts. Many musical instruments are part sugar maple, including violin sides and backs, guitar necks, and drum shells.

Acer saccharum 'Caddo' ('Caddo' Florida maple, 'Caddo' southern sugar maple)
Photo/Illustration: Courtesy of Marcum's Nursery
Be the first to rate this plant ...

Sugar maple
(A. saccharum) Zone 3
22 to 30 x 15 to 22
Source of maple syrup; wood is prized by furniture makers; brilliant yellow to burnt orange fall foliage ...

Sugar Maple (A. saccharum)
Mature Height/Spread: Sugar maple is a large tree that grows 50 to 80 feet tall, 35 to 50 feet wide. In open areas it is dense, upright oval to rounded. In dense shade it grows tall and slender.

SUGAR MAPLE
Acer saccharum
General Notes
Provide good drainage in clay soil. Source of maple syrup.

sugar maple Aceraceae Acer saccharum Marsh.   symbol: ACSA3
...

*50. Sugar Maple Acer saccharum
leaf
7-20 cm in diameter.
3-5 lobed.
lobes pointed at tip.
"U" shaped notch between lobes.

Sugar Maple   A-ser sak-KAR-um
Deciduous tree, 60-75(100) ft [18-23(30) m], ascending branches, upright oval, twigs of small diam. Leaves opposite, simple, 3-5 lobed, 7.5-15 cm long and across. Paired winged fruit (samara) is relatively small (A.

Sugar maple bark on a tree at the Mount Airy Forest Arboretum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Usage
Sugar maple is a large, fast growing deciduous tree that provides abundant shade and beautiful fall foliage.

The famous sugar maple, A. saccharum, has similar leaves except that they are not cordate and have few teeth. The sap, which is not milky, is the source of the tasty maple sugar and maple syrup.

The CHINESE SUGAR MAPLE is Sorghum saccharatum (known also as Andropogon arundinaceus, var. saccharatus), a cane-like plant containing sugary sap, belonging to the Grass family Graminaceae.

Japanese maple, sugar maple, Norway maple, silver maple (Acer japonicum, Acer palmatum, Acer saccharum, Acer platanoides, Acer saccharinum)
Maple (Acer species)
Related Topics
Cuttings
Soil
Plants of Home and Garden
Trees and Shrubs ...

ACER SACCHARUM - Sugar Maple
ACEROLA
Acerola Comes to California Loaded with Vitamin C. By Floyd L. Cooper. 1971 YB, pp 2-8
Culture of Rare Fruits in the San Francisco Bay Area. By J. Garrin Fullington. 1974, pp 3-6 ...

Acer saccharum
Sugar Maple Aceraceae
Located in front of Manchester Hall at top of 195 lawn.

Maple Acer platanoides 'Columnare' Upright Norway maple Acer platanoides 'Crimson King' Crimson King Norway Maple Acer rubrum Red Maple Acer rubrum 'October Glory' October Glory Red Maple Acer saccharinum Silver Maple Acer saccharum Sugar Maple Acer ...

Acer barbatum (Acer saccharum floridanum) - Florida Maple; Southern Sugar Maple
Acer barbinerve - Bearded Maple
Acer buergerianum - Trident Maple
Acer caesium - Himalayan Maple
Acer campbellii - Campbell's Maple
Acer campestre - Field Maple ...

Red Maple Acer rubrum Sugar Maple Acer saccharum Grey Alder Alnus incana River Birch Betula nigra American Beech Fagus grandifolia European Beech F. sylvatica White Ash Fraxinus americana Green Ash F. pennsylvanica Hessei European Ash F.

Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) - orange/red
Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) - clear yellow
Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) - orange/yellow/purple
Blackgum, Black Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) - intense red
White Oak (Quercus alba) - deep red ...

saccharinum (sugar maple)
A. pseudoplatanus* (sycamore)
Alnus glutinosa* (common alder)
A. cordata* (Italian alder)
Carpinus betulis* (hornbeam)
Fraxinus excelsior (ash)
Populus alba f. pyramidalis (white poplar)
Populus 'Balsam Spire' (poplar) ...

A southern variation of sugar maple, chalk maple grows to 25 ft. and usually has 2-3 trunks. Its attractive, mature bark is chalky-surfaced. The significant landscape feature of this tree is its brilliant fall foliage. The leaves are smaller than ...

Acer saccharum 'Green Mountain' : Green Mountain Sugar Maple - Whole Plant
Acer saccharum 'Monumentale' : Monument Sugar Maple - Whole Plant
Acer saccharum 'Sweet Shadow' : Sweet Shadow Sugar Maple - Foliage ...

Their vitamin and mineral needs soar just when juicy, sappy growth is scarce. Early-flowering shrubs and trees (including Japanese and sugar maples) are vulnerable. Except for forsythia and narcissus, later-blooming plants are good choices.

Too elaborate to anyone not a plant food specialist, but they provide value to home gardeners. Tree leaves contain calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen. The sugar maple ranks high, in quantity of leaf crop and fertilizer value.

Maple syrup is the concentrated sap obtained for commercial purposes from the sugar maple and the black maple.

multiple, small main trunks but it can have a robust trunk, as in the left photo. It commonly forms thickets with Quercus gambelii (the two dark trunks at the upper right of the photograph). Acer grandidentatum is a close relative of the Sugar Maple.

elongate in May and June you can peel off their "skin" and munch them as you would celery stalks. If our climate was more severe -- with consistent frosty nights and warm days -- we could make syrup from the maple's sap, as is done with Sugar maple.

Sugar maple, Rock maple, Hard maple
Sweet Pea, Tangier Pea, Everlasting Pea, Caley Pea and Singletary Pea
Tall Fescue
Tobacco and Tree Tobacco
Tung Oil Tree
Various Poppies including Opium Poppy
Water Hemlock or Cowbane
White and Yellow Sweetclover ...

See also: Maple, Acer, Green, Acer saccharum, May