Growing fire-enabling plant material in your yard can increase the fire risk to your home. Switch them out with these ...

University of California Riverside research reveals plants use sugar and thermal signals to detect daytime heat.

In contrast, from the Red River Valley and points west, most soils are of prairie grassland origin, and some tree types, such as Autumn Blaze maple, are less likely to thrive in prairie-type soils.

Above: Sugar maple leaf, photo by Purdue Arboretum These three maples have somewhat similar-looking leaves. On the surface, you may think this is simply an academic exercise. But if you care about ...

A maple tree typically has to be 40 years old in order to be large enough to be used in sugar making. Vince Portelli says even then, a 40-year-old tree with a 10-inch diameter can only handle one tap.

Familiar with stands of sugar maples in Wisconsin and Minnesota, he found the value of these maples environmentally “easy to see when I got there.” A 362-acre area of the 816-acre property is slated ...

The state reduced the cutting zone to 178 acres of the lot. It includes cutting a total 458,000 Mbf, or "thousand board feet" of cut lumber, of six different tree species. Of that, sugar maples ...

The sugar maple in 2022; photographs of the tree taken in 1942, top, and 1952; the tree’s bark; and its stump. Still, I hoped we could save her. Prune the dead limbs. Trim back.

In Ontario's Niagara Region, the historic Comfort Maple stands as a proud symbol of Canada's natural heritage. This majestic sugar maple tree, towering at almost 25 meters tall with a trunk wider ...

But one tree stood out: a century-old sugar maple, as wide as a coffee table, that towers over their Arts and Crafts home. That tree inspired Heiko’s wife, Chelsea, to give him a maple-tapping ...

These spreading maples grow best in areas with cool to mild winters like USDA zones 5 through 9. They're most prolific in cool, moist conditions but can also grow in the warmer, drier regions.

To make maple syrup, workers drive a tap into the bark of a maple tree and collect the sap that flows out. The sap is then concentrated, which increases the sugar content from about 2% to around 66%.