Types of sugar maple trees1/11/2024 ![]() Sugar maples grow 60 to 75 feet tall and can be 40 to 50 feet wide, providing excellent shade with their full foliage. The seed or fruit of sugar maple is a winged seed which occurs in pairs and turned from green to brown when mature. It can range from relatively smooth on saplings to minor crevices and ridging on medium sized trees to deeper ridges on older trees. ![]() The bark of sugar maple typically has a light to medium gray color, but its appearance is variable and somewhat confusing. The leaves produce brilliant fall colors ranging from yellow to burnt orange. The thin twigs are green in their youth, turning to a medium brown as they age. The shade-tolerant species has opposite leaf arrangement with relatively long leaf stems as well as opposite branch arrangement. 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 top, with u-shaped sinuses between the lobes. This week, we introduce the sugar maple or Acer saccharum. Each week, the Intro to Trees of Indiana web series will offer a sneak peek at one species from the book, paired with an ID That Tree video from Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee to help visualize each species as it stands in the woods. Threats to species health as well as also insight into the wood provided by the species, will be provided through additional resources as well as the Hardwoods of the Central Midwest exhibit of the Purdue Arboretum, if available.
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