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Sugar Maple
Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Up to 300 yrs
Size
Large
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate forest
Range
North America
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

A long-lived hardwood famous for the fiery orange and red blaze of its autumn canopy and for being the primary source of maple syrup, tapped each spring for its sweet rising sap. A mature tree can yield sap for over a century.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Sapindales
Family
Sapindaceae
Genus
Acer
Species
Acer saccharum