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Hardiness: USDA Zone 3a: to -39.9 °C (-40 °F) USDA Zone 3b: to -37.2 °C (-35 °F) USDA Zone 4a: to -34.4 °C (-30 °F) USDA Zone 4b: to -31.6 °C (-25 °F) USDA Zone 5a: to -28.8 °C (-20 °F) USDA Zone 5b: to -26.1 °C (-15 °F) USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 °C (-10 °F) USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 °C (-5 °F) USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F) USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F) USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F) USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade
Danger: N/A
Bloom Color: Chartreuse (Yellow-Green)
Bloom Time: Mid Spring
Foliage: Grown for foliage Deciduous Good Fall Color
Other details: Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Soil pH requirements: 6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic) 6.6 to 7.5 (neutral)
On Jul 16, 2009, cloverlymd from Silver Spring, MD wrote:
Like all maples this one casts off lots of seedlings. Its strongest point is its phenomenal fall color; I think only the red maple and the callery pear even begin to rival it. Its major drawback, however, is that next to nothing will grow under it. It has extremely dense shade, and very shallow, greedy roots. In my opinion it's a great forest tree but not really that great for one's yard.
On Nov 11, 2004, melody from Benton, KY (Zone 7a) wrote:
A large tree with a gray-brown trunk marked with rough vertical grooves, and loose edged plates when old.
One of our most valuable hardwood trees. The sap and the wood are both used commercially. The sap being rendered into Maple Syrup and the wood is used for fine furniture, musical instruments and fine cabinetry.
The beautiful Autumn foliage is admired by gardeners and non-gardeners alike, as it runs the spectrum from pale amber to vibrant red.
On Nov 18, 2003, Terry from Murfreesboro, TN (Zone 7a) wrote:
One of my favorite trees for fall color, even here in the mid/upper south. This is one species that points out the need to carefully read nursery tags: Acer saccharinum (Silver Leaf Maple) is NOT in the same league as its cousin, the similar-sounding A. saccharum
On Nov 12, 2003, DaveH from San Francisco, CA (Zone 10a) wrote:
It is important that Sugar Maples develop a strong single trunk. Trim the tree to a single leader when it is about 8 feet high. You'll be glad you did thirty years later. Large trees with double trunks tend to split in storms.
On Aug 31, 2001, smiln32 from Oklahoma City, OK (Zone 7a) wrote:
Sugar maple is a deciduous tree that will grow 40-80' tall (sometimes to 100') with a dense, round crown. This tree is one of the trees responsible for providing renowned fall color throughout New England. In the summer, it has medium green leaves that turn yellow-orange in autumn, and a single tree can provide wide variation in color. Fruit is the familiar two-winged samara.
Sugar maples are long-lived trees which grow relatively slowly (somewhat faster in early years.) Native Americans taught the early colonists how to tap these trees to make maple syrup, a multi-billion dollar industry in the U.S. and Canada today; all around, an excellent shade tree for the landscape.
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Birmingham, Alabama Mountain View, Arkansas Groveland, California Keystone Heights, Florida Hampton, Illinois Jacksonville, Illinois Indianapolis, Indiana Benton, Kentucky Silver Spring, Maryland Valley Lee, Maryland Lawrence, Massachusetts Minneapolis, Minnesota Bucyrus, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Ada, Oklahoma Irwin, Pennsylvania West Newton, Pennsylvania Lenoir City, Tennessee Murfreesboro, Tennessee Plainfield, Vermont Eglon, West Virginia Green Bay, Wisconsin
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