![]() For collecting sap, a cut was made into the trunk, a reed inserted into that cut, and sap would flow down the reed into the birch containers. Sap containers were originally fashioned from birch bark, stitched together by spruce roots, and sealed with pine pitch. Maple tapping originates from the practices of Indigenous groups including the Abenaki, Algonquin, Iroquois, and Ojibwe peoples. Forty gallons of sap creates only one gallon of syrup! Then, a tap is inserted into the hole and sap consisting of mostly water is extracted and boiled to produce syrup. ![]() Yummy! Sap is extracted by drilling a hole into the phloem tissue of the tree, which is responsible for transporting organic molecules like sugar. Other species of maple are also used to make syrup (including our native bigleaf maple), but sugar maple has the highest sugar content on average. Our northern neighbor, Canada, bears the sugar maple on its flag. One of these vibrant displays comes from the sugar maple ( Acer saccharum), which is the primary species from which we get maple syrup! This deciduous tree is native to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, and can live up to 200-300 years old. You can bathe in their warm pigments at the Washington Park Arboretum and Center for Urban Horticulture as the season cools. Maples provide delicious syrup and fabulous fall color. They were actually referring to leaves falling in autumn and the wonderful process of tapping sugar maple trees for syrup (not really, but wouldn’t it be funny). “We’re going down, down in an earlier round Twitter Facebook Pinterest Email “Sugar We’re Going Down” – The Sugar Maple Plant Highlight
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