Features:
Common name: Sugar maple
Family: Aceraceae
Origin: North America, Canada
Height at maturity: up to 20 meters
Hardiness: -20°C
Exposure: sunny, partial shade
Plant type: tree
Vegetation: perennial
Foliage: deciduous
Flowering: spring
Flower color: greenish yellow
Type of soil: rather clayey, avoid limestone, well draining
Watering: Normal
Use: in the garden, isolated
Diseases and Pests:-
Toxicity: –
Storage of seeds: 2 years in a dry place away from light at 3/4°C (refrigerator)
Description:
A deciduous tree with a dense crown, it bears large, broad, oval leaves of a medium green color. They are 8 to 20 centimeters long with 3 to 5 rounded lobes.
In spring, it produces greenish-yellow flowers. In autumn, the leaves take on orange, red and yellow hues.
To be used in the garden as an ornamental tree or to grow as a bonsai, this tree is the one that provides the famous maple syrup just like Acer rubrum present on the site.
