Photo: Superior National Forest — CC BY 2.0 · source
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Survives zone 3 through 8
Spring sap boiled down to maple syrup — the classic sugar maple, all-sucrose and among the sweetest tappable saps.
- Hardiness
- Zone 3 to 8
- Habit
- Tree
- Edible part
- Sap
- Ripens
- Late winter (sap run)
- Mature size
- Large tree — NOT containerable
- Light
- Shade-tolerant as a tree — but sap sugar is highest in large, open, sunlit crowns
- Soil pH
- 6.0–7.0
- Environment
- Temperate
- Status
- Both wild and cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 10+ yrs (sap)
- Pollination
- Monoecious/self-fertile