Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum · Sapindaceae · 설탕단풍
How to spot it
Leaves usually have five lobes, the lower two small; fall color turns yellow, orange and red.
Look
- Leaves
- Leaves are mostly five-lobed, with the lower two lobes relatively small.
- Flowers
- Male and female flowers are distinct; greenish-yellow flowers hang in drooping clusters on slender stalks.
- Fruit
- Paired, papery-winged samaras form a U shape and ripen from green to brown.
- Bark
- With age, gray or gray-brown bark develops irregular, thick ridges.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted
- Native to
- Eastern and central North America.
- Ecology
- Seeds feed birds and small mammals, and tree cavities are used by cavity-nesting birds.
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- 국립생물자원관, 국가생물종목록 I(2019)
- 산림청·국립수목원 (2012), 한국의 가로수 — 나무가 만드는 아름다운 길
- USDA Forest Service FEIS — Acer saccharum, sugar maple
- 캐나다 정부(Canadian Heritage) 공식 상징 페이지
- The Canadian Encyclopedia 'Maple Syrup Industry' (Leo H. Werner, 2006 게재, 2022-03-30 수정)