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Sugar maple is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup and for its brightly colored fall foliage. [4] It may also be called "rock maple," "sugar tree," "sweet maple," or, particularly in reference to the wood, "hard maple," [5] "birds-eye maple," or "curly maple," the last two being specially figured lumber. [6] [7]
Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple, [3] creek maple, silverleaf maple, [3] soft maple, large maple, [3] water maple, [3] swamp maple, [3] or white maple, [3] is a species of maple native to the eastern and central United States and southeastern Canada. [3] [4] It is one of the most common trees in the United States.
The sugar maple's leaf has come to symbolize Canada, and is depicted on the country's flag. [117] Several US states, including West Virginia, New York, Vermont, and Wisconsin, have the sugar maple as their state tree. [118] A scene of sap collection is depicted on the Vermont state quarter, issued in 2001. [119]
Maple trees are tapped by drilling holes into their trunks through the bark and inserting a special little fitting that helps collect the sap flowing through the tree.
A sugar maple tree. Three species of maple trees in the genus Acer are predominantly used to produce maple sugar: the sugar maple (A. saccharum), the black maple (A. nigrum), and the red maple (A. rubrum), [1] [full citation needed] because of the high sugar content (roughly two to five percent) in the sap of these species.
Acer floridanum (syn. Acer saccharum subsp. floridanum (Chapm.) Desmarais, Acer barbatum auct. non Michx.), commonly known as the Florida maple and occasionally as the southern sugar maple or hammock maple, is a tree that occurs in mesic and usually calcareous woodlands of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain in the United States, from southeastern Virginia in the north, south to central ...
The tree canopy is dominated by sugar maple or black maple. Other tree species, if present, form only a small fraction of the total tree cover. In the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia, and in some New England states, many sugar bushes have a sugar shack where maple syrup can be bought or sampled. [4]
In a large skillet, cook hazelnuts, sugar and water until the sugar dissolves and thickens around the hazelnuts. Once they’re golden brown in color, remove from the heat, season with salt, then ...