2.0" (inches)	................	$ 120.00
2.5" (inches)	................	$ 185.00
3.0" (inches)	................	$ 220.00

Scientific Classification Kingdom...: Plantae Division...: Magnoliophyta Class...: Magnoliopsida Order...: Sapindales Family...: Sapindaceae Genus...: Acer Species...: Acer Saccharum Variety...: Bonfire Sugar Maple Green Mountain Sugar Maple Legacy Sugar Maple

The Sugar Maple is the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.  The 
Green Mountain Maple's durable foliage resists heat and drought; oval crown.  Likewise, the Legacy Maple is tough, vigorous and popular. 

It is a deciduous tree normally reaching heights of 80 to 115 feet tall (exceptionally up to 150 feet tall). The leaves are deciduous, 3 to 6 inches long and equally wide with five palmate lobes. The basal lobes are relatively small, while the upper lobes are larger and deeply notched. In contrast with the angular notching of the Silver Maple, however, the notches tend to be rounded at their interior. 

The Sugar Maple's fall color is often spectacular, ranging from bright yellow through orange to fluorescent red-orange. The leaf buds are pointy and brown colored. The recent years growth twigs are green, and turn dark brown.

The flowers are in corymbs of 5 to 10 together, yellow-green and without petals; flowering occurs in early spring after 30 to 55 growing degree days. The fruit is a double samara with two winged seeds, the seeds are globose, 1/4th to 1/3rd of an inch in diameter, the wing 3/4th to 1 inch long. The seeds fall from the tree in autumn.

Sugar Maple is among the most shade tolerant of large deciduous trees. Among North American maples its shade tolerance is exceeded only by the Striped Maple, a smaller tree. Like other maples, its shade tolerance is manifested in its ability to germinate and persist under a closed canopy as an understory plant, and respond with rapid growth to the increased light formed by a gap in the canopy. The sugar maple can grow comfortably in any type of soil, except sand.

The Sugar Maple is one of the most important Canadian trees, being (with Black Maple) the major source of sap for making maple syrup; Sugar Maple being regarded as slightly better. Many maples can be used as a sap source for maple syrup, but none of the others are as good as these two.

The wood is one of the hardest and densest of the maples, and is prized for furniture and flooring. Bowling alleys and bowling pins are both commonly manufactured from sugar maple. Trees with wavy wood grain, which can occur in curly, quilted and "birdseye maple" form, are especially valued. Maple is also the wood used for basketball courts, including the floors used by the NBA, and it is a popular wood for baseball bats, along with white ash.

The Sugar Maple is a favorite street and garden tree, because it is easy to propagate and transplant, is fairly fast-growing, and has beautiful fall color. The shade and the shallow, fibrous roots may interfere with grass growing under the trees. Deep well-drained loam is the best rooting medium, although Sugar Maple can grow well on sandy soil which does not become excessively dry. Light (or loose) clay soils are also well known to support Sugar Maple. Poorly drained areas are unsuitable and the species is especially short-lived on flood-prone clay flats. Its salt tolerance is low and it is very sensitive to boron.