Sugar Maple The Sugar Maple has leaves that are 5-lobed with deep notches between lobes and pale green on the underside. The bark is dark brown marked with rough vertical grooves and ridges. The fruit is a double winged seed. Besides its importance as a timber producer, the sugar maple is used as an ornamental, as a source of food, and yields valuable syrup and sugar. The White Pine has dark bluish-green needles, the bark is not scaly, but dark with deep furrows.
White pine is one of the most important and tallest timber trees in the Northeast.
The wood is light, soft, straight-grained, and is of great value for house construction. It is used for reforestation projects since it grows rapidly. The Tulip Tree has simple leaves with 4 lobes that are smooth and shiny. The bark is dark green and smooth in young trees and as the tree matures the bark breaks into rough ridges separated by gray fissures. The fruit is conelike containing a winged seed.