The only one I definitely know of in real life is the one at Hilltop Arboretum in Baton Rouge. It's wide and casts tons of shade onto th...Read Moree benches where plants are grown and sold at their plant sales. (In fact, I'd always been so busy looking at the plants on the benches that I assumed the shade was coming from a live oak, until I actually stood back and looked at the tree finally.) I would love to plant one in my yard, though I don't really have room. Its slow growth rate, small leaves, and low overall height make it a good candidate for planting here in the hurricane zone. The specimen I mentioned is growing amid partial shade from surrounding pine trees. And it's at the top of a hill, as you might've guessed by the name of the place, hence the roots don't get soggy. Not sure if that is a good or a bad thing for this particular species.
Auburndale, FL (Zone 9b) | November 2009 | neutral
Found a 24-inch volunteer sticking out of some Indian hawthorne, probably the gift of a bird. Will try to transplant it to a sunny area a...Read Moret the end of an ornamental dry streambed. There's a large Muskogee crape myrtle at the other end. Hope to post a positive follow-up report with photo next autumn.
They are happier with alot of water. Mine is doing well in my regular Florida sand. Last year we had a spring drought and lost all the le...Read Moreaves, turned bright yellow as if it was winter coming. When the rains came it grew new leaves and I decided to amend the soil in case that happens again. One planted in the shade of a pine tree gets red/ orange fall colors. One planted in full sun gets bright yellow colors.
I have found these trees to look much better when given some afternoon shade. I had one planted in full sun and it always looked scorched...Read More. I moved it beneath a larger tree and it started looking and growing better. I think they are naturally slow growers though. The fall color is a nice orange-red.
Oklahoma City, OK (Zone 7a) | August 2004 | neutral
Sugar maple is most abundant on moist rich soils on slopes and ridges, where it grows in mixed hardwood forests. There are several region...Read Moreal sub-species some of which may be considered separate species by some authorities. It does not tolerate heat nor air pollution well.
Some neat tidbits: It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup using sugar maple sap (which is collected in the spring) - and - charcoal made from sugar maple is used to "mellow" Jack Daniels® whiskey.
The southern sugar maple, or Florida maple, is found in the middle south, lower south, and coastal south. It is native to Virginia south...Read More to Florida and west to Oklahoma and Texas. It grows to 25-30'. It is a great tree for fall color usually turning bright yellow with an occasional orange/red tint. It is similar to Acer saccharum, but is smaller, has smaller leaves, paler bark, a more open habit of growth, and is better adapted to the low, wet coastal plains of the South. Generally an understory tree. Worthy of cultivation for reliable yellow fall color in the South.
The only one I definitely know of in real life is the one at Hilltop Arboretum in Baton Rouge. It's wide and casts tons of shade onto th...Read More
Found a 24-inch volunteer sticking out of some Indian hawthorne, probably the gift of a bird. Will try to transplant it to a sunny area a...Read More
They are happier with alot of water. Mine is doing well in my regular Florida sand. Last year we had a spring drought and lost all the le...Read More
Acer barbatum is Native to Texas and other States.
I have found these trees to look much better when given some afternoon shade. I had one planted in full sun and it always looked scorched...Read More
Sugar maple is most abundant on moist rich soils on slopes and ridges, where it grows in mixed hardwood forests. There are several region...Read More
The southern sugar maple, or Florida maple, is found in the middle south, lower south, and coastal south. It is native to Virginia south...Read More