Leaves: Sugar Maple leaves are simple, oppositely arranged 3" to 6" long and wide, generally five (sometimes 3) lobes acuminate with heart-shaped base slightly course toothed with narrow and deep sinuses, and medium to dark green above, pale to gray-green beneath.

LOCATION

Owner: UGA, Milledge Hall courtyard
Nominated by: Bob Barker
Accessible: Yes, SE corner Milledge Hall courtyard
GA West NAD83 (feet)
E: 2,537,596 N: 1,438,374


Notes: The money tree of the Acer genera, the Sugar Maple is highly valued for its wood products and birdseye maple is prized as a highly sought table and counter top wood. In its more natural habitat (New England and the northern tier of states), Sugar Maple is grown in "sugar bushes" or groves for maple syrup production. In the Georgia Piedmont, its main contribution is as a landscape tree where its fall color is spectacular. It is a large shade tree needing lots of space. Does not do well in crowded, polluted situations. More prevalent in the southeast are its two close cousins: the Chalkbark Maple (A. leucoderme) and the Florida Maple (A. barbatum)

Bark: Smooth gray-brown when young, deeply furrowed with thick irregular plates or ridges when old, becoming scaly sometimes to the point of resembling a Shagbark Hickory.

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