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Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. [3] Sugar maple is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup and for its brightly colored fall foliage. [4]
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 sugar maple is easy to differentiate by clear sap in the petiole (leaf stem); Norway maple petioles have white sap. [citation needed] The tips of the points on Norway maple leaves reduce to a fine "hair", while the tips of the points on sugar maple leaves are, on close inspection, rounded. On mature trees, sugar maple bark is more shaggy ...
Aceraceae (maple family) Acer argutum: deep-veined maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer floridanum: Florida maple; southern sugar maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer barbinerve: bearded maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer buergerianum: trident maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer caesium: Himalayan maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer campbellii ...
Sugar maple: Acer saccharum: 1949 [57] [58] Virginia: Flowering dogwood: Cornus florida: 1956 [59] Washington: Western hemlock: Tsuga heterophylla: 1947 [60] [61] West Virginia: Sugar maple: Acer saccharum: 1949 [62] Wisconsin: Sugar maple: Acer saccharum: 1949 [63] Wyoming: Plains cottonwood: Populus deltoides monilifera: 1947, amended 1961 [64]
Acer grandidentatum, commonly called bigtooth maple or western sugar maple, [2] [3] is a species of maple native to interior western North America. It occurs in scattered populations from western Montana to central Texas in the United States and south to Coahuila in northern Mexico .
Maple (Acer) Hard maple Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) Black maple (Acer nigrum) Soft maple Boxelder (Acer negundo) Red maple (Acer rubrum) Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) European maple Sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) Marblewood (Marmaroxylon racemosum) Marri, red gum (Corymbia calophylla) Meranti (Shorea spp.) Merbau, ipil (Intsia bijuga ...
Acer skutchii, often called the cloud forest sugar maple, Guatemalan maple, Mexican sugar maple, Skutch maple, or álamo plateado is a species of flowering plant in the genus Acer, native to Mexico and Guatemala.