swamp maple

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the red maple, Acer rubrum, found on moist sites in the southern part of Canada from Lake Superior eastward.

Quotations

1800

The swamp maple . . . yields a much greater quantity of sap . . . but this sap does not afford so much sugar as that of the curled maple.

1956

The shores had a fringe of swamp maples and in a few more weeks when their leaves were turning scarlet it would be a very pretty place.