A cultivar producing sap with twice the sugar content typical of a sugar maple (3-5%, vs 2-2.5% typical of Acer saccharum).
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Discovered in the 1960's by H. Cedric Larsson, a regional research forester with the Ontario Dept of Lands and Forests in Maple, Ontario.
Silver maples have long been used in producing maple sugar. They have some advantages over sugar maples in their faster growth and greater adaptability---they tolerate wetter ground and reach tappable size in only 8-10 years.
Tissue-cutured plants are now commercially available through St. Lawrence Nursery, Potsdam, NY.
Like the species, this cultivar is weak-wooded and makes a poor ornamental.
A cultivar producing sap with twice the sugar content typical of a sugar maple (3-5%, vs 2-2.5% typical of Acer saccharum).
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