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Sugar Maple tree (life's end)

Acer saccharium

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Description:

The end of this Sugar Maple showing other life including: the large Pileated Woodpecker 's characteristically rectangular excavations in the tree and shelf-like mushrooms. The tree grows to 100 feet. To circle the width of this tree it would take four men touching fingertips. Leaves shown in second picture. Woodpecker's wood shavings below is shown on picture 3. Fruit is winged seed pair shown in 5th picture. Source of sugar maple (when alive and well)..

Habitat:

Uplands and valleys with moist soils; sometimes in pure stands.

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PublishedAugust 28, 2013

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