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Sugar maple (Acer saccharum)

Posted by Kendrick Fowler,
North Country explorer from
April 14, 2015 —

A lovely little sugar maple (Acer saccharum) behind Flint Hall on the St. Lawrence University campus. Young sugar maples have smooth, gray-brown bark; the bark of older trees develops deep furrows and rough plates.