. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Florida Sugar Maple 651 spect. While commonly smaller, it sometimes attains as great a size as the Sugar maple, and is also known as Black sugar maple. The old bark is dark brown or nearly black, fissured and scaly. The young twigs are usually hairy, yellowish green, becoming orange-brown and smooth. The leaves are often wider than long, sometimes 2 dm. broad, cordate at the base, with the basal lobes often overlapping, d
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Florida Sugar Maple 651 spect. While commonly smaller, it sometimes attains as great a size as the Sugar maple, and is also known as Black sugar maple. The old bark is dark brown or nearly black, fissured and scaly. The young twigs are usually hairy, yellowish green, becoming orange-brown and smooth. The leaves are often wider than long, sometimes 2 dm. broad, cordate at the base, with the basal lobes often overlapping, dull darkish green above and nearly of the same hue beneath, 3-lobed or s-lobed, with the lobes entire or wavy-margined, rarely with one or two large teeth; they are quite densely hairy beneath when young, and somewhat hairy, at least on the veins, when mature; the leaf-stalks are also hairy, at least when young, and are expanded at the base, often bearing stipules, which are sometimes 3 or 4 cm. long. The flowers are borne on drooping, hairy pedicels, and closely resemble those of the Sugar maple. The samaras are nearly the same as those of the Sugar maple, but the wings are usually more divergent. The Black maple is a very attractive shade tree, but is not as much planted as the Sugar maple. Its wood is very similar to that of the Sugar maple. > 15. FLORIDA SUGAR MAPLE - Acer floridanum (Chapman) Pax Acer saccharinum floridanum Chapman This southern relative of the Sugar maple is a graceful tree, rarely more than 18 meters high, with a maximum trunk diameter of about i meter. The bark is chalky white, that of old trunks rough, that of young trees smooth or nearly so. The tree grows naturally in river swamps from Georgia and Florida to Louisiana, and is reported to exist further west in Texas and northern Mexico. The young twigs are smooth and green,, soon turning brown. The slender-stalked leaves are orbicular in outline, or often wider than long, 5 to 9 cm. broad, deep gre
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