Other maple species that can be "tapped" are red and Norway maple. Red maple sap tends to yield less sugar and early budding causes off flavors so it's seldom used in commercial syrup operations.

Maple sap is boiled down during a maple sugaring demonstration by the Berks County Parks and Recreation Department on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, at Gring’s Mill.

Sugar maples work best for syrup, she said, since their sap contains two percent sugar compared to 98 percent water, while silver, red and Norway maple sap is only one percent sugar.

The sap flows in late winter and early spring when night time temperatures are below freezing and the days are above freezing. The sap is slightly sweet and can be tapped by boring a hole in any maple ...

Silver maple is quite sweet, but they prefer wetlands and river banks – not places where maple producers typically operate. Even the much-maligned Norway maple can be tapped.

It takes 30 gallons from a sugar maple - the amount of sap that drips from one tree in 30 days - to produce one gallon of syrup. LOCAL SYRUP In Setauket, Bob Benner's Norway maples run 40 or 50 ...

As March fills with maple syrup festivals, we come to learn how maple trees aren't at all like factories or franchises. No. The sap they produce and its sugar content — all necessary to boil it ...

Norway maples typically have 5-7 lobes (commonly 7), sugar maples typically have 5, and black maples typically have 3-5. Black maple’s bottom two lobes are so much less prominent than sugar maple that ...

If the sap is white, it’s a Norway maple; sugar maples have clear sap. If you have a known sugar or Norway maple leaf for comparison, you’ll also see that the leaves of a Norway maple are ...