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the canopy begins to turn...
The sugar maple’s red leaves begin to appear on the ground, and they begin to appear in the treetops. But only the highest leaves have begun to turn and drop, as the sugar maple leaves down below ...
An iconic sugar maple
This old sugar maple (acer saccharum) is one of the first to greet main-entrance visitors at Wadsworth Falls park. The bark, according to one expert, is best thought of as "the bark that doesn't lo...
Not all shaggy trees are hickory
Besides the shagbark hickory, sugar maples, white oak, and other hickories can all have very shaggy bark in certain phases of their growth. Unlike the shagbark hickory, old sugar maple bark is oft...