SC - Sugar Maples

[Par Leijonhuvud]

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Par Leijonhuvud wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Tim & Dee wrote:
> 
> > Is/are there any sugar maple trees in Europe?  And what is Sweet
> > Water? 
> 
> Hm, no, I don't think so. At least not natively (modern day imports is a

I had a look in my field guides before I left for work this morning. The
Sugar Maple is Acer saccharum, while the only maple species in
Scandinavia are A. platanoida, A. campestre and A. pseudoplanus. There
is, of course, a possiblity that the A. saccharum does exist further
south, but I don't think so. 

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Mary Morman wrote:

: My memory is that both maple and larch are new world trees.  I'm basing
: this on reading reports of chests made from both of these being found in
: Iceland and used as supporting evidence of trips to the New World.
 
Maple as such does exist in both the new and old world, but the
particular species differ.

/UlfR

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Par Leijonhufvud                  par.leijonhufvud at labtek.ki.se
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                                        -- Niccolo Machiavelli

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