Sugar Maple: Acer saccharum
In continuing my spotlight on the trees fronting Enslow Middle School and Collis Avenue, I am showing the Sugar Maple. Again, seven of the nine trees in front of the school are maples, the other two are Pin Oaks. These too are aged the same as the school from the late nineteen teens (the school was opened in 1917).
The leaves are five lobed and bright green on the surface with lighter green undersides. The bark is grey with long vertical fissures. The trees are prized for their sap because of its high sugar content. The sap is collected and boiled down into maple syrup. I can say I am a big fan of the real stuff. Maple syrup is definitely superior in taste to the artificially flavored corn syrup alternative.
 |
| Most of the trees exceeds forty feet in height |
 |
| Furrows and long, irregular, thick vertical plates that appear to peal from the trunk in a vertical direction. |
 |
| 3-5 inches wide; 5 lobed bright green upper surface and a paler green lower surface; leaf margin without fine teeth |
No comments:
Post a Comment