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Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. [3] Sugar maple is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup and for its brightly colored fall foliage. [4]
Cappi Thompson/Getty Images. Best For: baked goods and sauces or marinades for savory dishes Brown sugar starts off much the same as white sugar (i.e., it comes from the cane) but instead of being ...
Acer leucoderme (English: chalk maple; also whitebark maple, pale-bark maple and sugar maple [2]) is a deciduous tree native to the southeastern United States from North Carolina south to northwest Florida and west to eastern Texas. It lives in the understory in moist, rocky soils on river banks, ravines, woods, and cliffs.
Maple sugar is what remains after the sap of the sugar maple is boiled for longer than is needed to create maple syrup or maple taffy. [10] Once almost all the water has been boiled off, all that is left is a solid sugar. [10] By composition, this sugar is about 90% sucrose, the remainder consisting of variable amounts of glucose and fructose. [11]
Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple, [3] creek maple, silverleaf maple, [3] soft maple, large maple, [3] water maple, [3] swamp maple, [3] or white maple, [3] is a species of maple native to the eastern and central United States and southeastern Canada. [3] [4] It is one of the most common trees in the United States.
Mexican or maize sugar can be made by boiling down the juice of green maize stalks. [1] Agave nectar is made from the sap of Agave spp., including tequila agave (Agave tequilana). [2] Birch syrup is made from the sap of birch trees (Betula spp.). [3] Maple syrup, taffy and sugar are made from the sap of tapped maple trees (Acer spp.). [4]
Acer grandidentatum, commonly called bigtooth maple or western sugar maple, [2] [3] is a species of maple native to interior western North America. It occurs in scattered populations from western Montana to central Texas in the United States and south to Coahuila in northern Mexico .
Acer floridanum (syn. Acer saccharum subsp. floridanum (Chapm.) Desmarais, Acer barbatum auct. non Michx.), commonly known as the Florida maple and occasionally as the southern sugar maple or hammock maple, is a tree that occurs in mesic and usually calcareous woodlands of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain in the United States, from southeastern Virginia in the north, south to central ...