Japanese Maple trees are loved for their gorgeous color-shifting leaves, creating a magical-looking fall landscape. Here's ...

This week, we introduce the sugar maple or Acer saccharum. 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 ...

Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is a deciduous tree also referred to as hard maple or rock maple. It is one of the largest and most important hardwood species in North America, typically reaching 70-90 ...

A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. Corey Snyder, a wood ...

You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the ...

so they are favored by maple sugar makers. Depending on the soil, climate and its genetics, a maple tree needs to be about 10 inches in diameter before it will produce enough sap to make syrup.

Each spring, students and staff from the Myaamia Center and students and staff from the Western Program tap ten sugar maple trees in Peabody Woods. Maple sugaring, the process of making maple sugar ...

You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the ...

We are simply too far south for the sugar maple to do well. The silver maple and box elder tend to be short-lived here as the wood is brittle and prone to breakage. These trees do not produce a ...

The North American sugar maple is famous for giving us maple syrup, a favourite pancake topping for many. Two little-known close relatives of the tree can be found in Mexico, where they are ...

The oppositely held leaves may resemble sugar maple but the V shaped shallow divisions stand in contrast to sugar maple’s deep u-shaped sinuses. In the early spring, it is one of the earliest native ...

Ten years later in 2020, maple syrup production increased to 804,000. That wasn’t their highest production year, however. In ...