It has a dense crown of leaves, which turn various shades of gold to scarlet in fall. In winter, buds are easily distinguished. So walk your woods with a roll of surveyor’s tape in hand. The sugar maple tree may grow to a height of 40 metres (130 feet). 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. The bright lime green canopy, from a distance, and the opposite branches, up close, make right now the perfect time to get out there and mark your sugar maple trees so you know which ones to tap next sugar season. Plants like sugar maple that produce unisexual (either male or female) flowers can either be monoecious (having both sexes on the same plant, like most sugar maples) or dioecious (with separate male and female plants/individuals, like some sugar maples). Below you see opposite branches on the right and alternate on the left. What are the three main plant mating systems? Flowers that each contain both functional stamens and pistils are “ perfect” flowers. Although it grows largest in and near swamps, it abounds in New England forests and is becoming more common as sugar maple begins to succumb to climatic change. A valuable tree, and the chief source of maple syrup.” Red maple takes its common name from its reddish buds that swell in spring, its red leaf petioles in summer, and its brilliant red foliage in fall. Sugar maple twigs have a true terminal bud, and oppositely arranged leaf V-shaped leaf scars that meet each other across the twig. ” Conspicuous in spring because of the numerous yellow flowers in tassel-like clusters leaves turning yellow to orange and deep red in fall. Widely distributed in Ohio, but less common in the area of the Prairie Peninsula and on the Illinoian Till Plain of southwestern Ohio. Lucy Braun, in The Woody Plants of Ohio (1961, 1989 The Ohio State University Press) tell us that this species is “A large forest tree, and one of the dominants of the Beech-Maple Forest region in moist, rich, but well-drained soil. Breaking leaf buds: One or more breaking leaf buds are visible on the plant. The sugar maple is most easily identified by clear sap in the leaf petiole (the Norway maple has white sap), brown, sharp-tipped buds (the Norway maple has blunt, green or reddish-purple buds), and shaggy bark on older trees (the Norway maple bark has small grooves).
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