Other obvious signs of trouble are fungus fruit bodies, sugar maple borer scars, and. According to the USDA's Plant Guide, red maple's early-produced pollen may be important to the biology of bees and other pollen-dependent insects. Fall color is yellow or non-existent Stems stout, glabrous, olive-brown in color with lenticels leaf scars meet to form a sharp angle older stems gray. Normally, sugar maple does not have a dark cen- tral core of wood. A) Twig with buds of sugar maple, B) leaf scar on sugar maple, C) green/red ash buds and leaf scar, D) white ash buds and notched leaf scar, E) leaf scar and hairy twig of. Compared to sugar and black maple, red maple is a relatively short-lived tree, rarely living longer than 150 years. Tea brewed from the inner bark has been used for treating coughs and diarrhea. For example, the sugar maple has a sharp, pointed terminal bud with many scales. Looking at all of these features together makes it relatively easy to identify most deciduous trees in winter. Lobes are almost smooth, few teeth, and the petiole does not yield a milky sap. Native Americans used red maple bark as an analgesic, a wash for swollen eyes and cataracts, and as a remedy for hives and muscular aches. The leaf scar located below the winter bud where the leaf fell off in autumn varies in size and shape and is another identifying characteristic. Description Leaf: Bright green above, paler beneath. Legacy® sugar maple (Acer saccharum ‘Legacy’): Oval form growing 50 feet high and 35 feet wide. In winter, buds are easily distinguished. This tree has long been valued as an ornamental tree because of its ease of establishment, rapid growth, brightly coloured flowers and fruit, and fall leaf colours. Thick leaves are resistant to leaf scorch. Red maple has a highly variable leaf shape, and some can look similar to sugar maple, but they are easily distinguished by serrations and the color of the leaf underside. Red maple is also known as scarlet maple, swamp maple, soft maple, Carolina red maple, Drummond red maple, water maple as well as some other names. To support our efforts please browse our store (books with medicinal info, etc.).
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