Sugar maple hard maple.
Is sugar maple a hardwood.
80 115 ft 25 35 m tall 2 3 ft 6 1 0 m trunk diameter.
The sugar maple tree or acer saccharum is classified as a hard hardwood maple tree.
Birdseye maple is sugar maple with a unique figure pattern giving it the appearance of eyes.
Both of these maple trees are used for making maple hardwood flooring and many wood furniture products.
Hard maple sugar maple rock maple.
Hard maple often called sugar maple or rock maple when it s in tree form.
It grows natively in the northeastern regions of the united states and can reach a height of more than 100 feet at maturity.
Hard maple acer saccharum common name s.
The heavy wood of sugar maple acer saccharum the most important and abundant and black maple acer nigrum are commonly sold as hard maple in the lumber trade.
Celebrated for producing maple syrup beautiful fall foliage.
Hardwoods sapindaceae acer saccharum.
Plain curly birdseye.
And like teak and white oak it has a high crushing strength.
There are many variations of hard maple including.
Typically when referring to the tree it s called sugar maple while the wood is referred to as hard maple or rock maple.
It is stiff strong dense and extremely tough with excellent shock resistance.
Like black maple b.
Dense fine textured wood.
Also known as sugar maple.
Nigrum sugar maple is classified as a hardwood other species of maple are considered soft.
Lumber from maple makes up six percent of all hardwood harvested in the united states every year third only to red oak and yellow poplar.
It thrives in the great lakes region stretching from the upper midwest all the way to east coast of the us and far north into canada.
Sugar maple acer saccharum and the black maple acer nigrum.
Hard maple is used to describe two types of maple tree.
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 eastward to massachusetts.
The sugar maple is of course also where we get all our delicious maple syrup.
Acer saccharum the sugar maple or rock maple is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family sapindaceae.
There are an abundance of variations of the maple but they are commonly placed into two categories hard maple and soft maple.
They are the same species.
The wood of the sugar maple is strong heavy and hard with a light brown to reddish color.
The species sapwood is most often used as lumber instead of the heartwood.
