The sugar maple tree or acer saccharum is classified as a hard hardwood maple tree.
Maple hardwood trees.
Some of the most popular species of hardwoods are oak maple hickory walnut and cherry trees.
Hardwood trees usually have broad flat leaves as opposed to coniferous needled or scaled tree foliage another name for a hardwood tree is appropriately broadleaf.
Most hardwood trees are deciduous trees which lose their leaves annually like elm or maple.
Now it may look like hard maple is heads and tails above the rest and to a certain extent it is but for reference black cherry has a janka hardness of 950 lb f the same as red maple and black walnut is rated at 1 010 lb f also note that black maple not pictured isn t quite as hard as its close relative hard maple and ranks in the mid range with a hardness of 1 180 lb f.
The wood of the sugar maple is strong heavy and hard with a light brown to reddish color.
With leaves that look very similar to the sugar maple the silver maple s leaves are thinner with more defined points.
It grows natively in the northeastern regions of the united states and can reach a height of more than 100 feet at maturity.
Acer ˈ eɪ s ər is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples the genus is placed in the family sapindaceae.
Acer saccharum the sugar maple or rock maple is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family sapindaceae it is native to the hardwood forests of eastern canada from nova scotia west through southern quebec central and southern ontario to southeastern manitoba around lake of the woods and the northern parts of the central and northeastern united states from minnesota.
Hardwood trees represent a group of trees that have broad leaves produce a fruit or nut are mostly deciduous and go dormant in the winter.
The texture and density of the wood a tree produces puts it in either the hardwood or softwood category.
Most but not all hardwoods are deciduous perennial plants which are normally leafless for some time during the year.
Silver maple this tree is close behind the sugar maple in terms of being the most prolific tree in north america.
Softwood comes from a conifer cone bearing or evergreen trees such as pine or spruce.
The type species of the genus is the sycamore maple.