| The New England Sugar Maple (Acher saccharum): Leaf 3-5 inches wide; 5lobed (rarely 3-lobed); bright green upper surface and a paler green lower surface; leaf margin without fine teeth (compare with red and silver maple). Bark Young trees up to 4-8 inches with smooth gray bark. Older trees developing furrows and ultimately long, irregular, thick vertical plates that appear to peal from the trunk in a vertical direction. Twig A somewhat shiny, brownish, slender, relatively smooth twig with 1/4-3/8 inch long sharply pointed terminal bud. Fruit Horseshoe-shaped double-winged fruit with parallel or slightly divergent wings. Winged seed approximately 1" long. Fruits mature in fall. Click other descriptions of the Sugar Maple. |
NEW ENGLAND SUGAR MAPLE
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