Acer saccharum
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Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. S
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Sugar maple-yellow birch forest, Jacques-Cartier National Park, Quebec, Canada
Sugar maple terminal bud
Bark
Maple syrup
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Maple syrup is a sweet syrup made from the sap of maple trees. In cold climates these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in th
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…It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. Sugar maple is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup and for its brightly colored autumn foliage. It may also be called "rock maple", "sugar tree", "sweet maple", or, particularly in reference to the wood…
Bottled maple syrup
A sugar maple tree
Sugar Making in Montreal, October 1852
A bucket used to collect sap, built c. 1820