Talk:Acer saccharum

message: How long does this tree live?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.118.201.68 (talk) 23:39, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life-Span 

message: When some one who is better at editing this get to it.. please correct that this is the largest of all maples, The Oregon or bigleaf maple is also a very large maple! It grows in western Canada.
Here is my source : http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/treebook/bigleafmaple.htm
Size of the sugar leaf maple : http://www.atl.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/index-e/what-e/publications-e/afcpublications-e/maritimetrees-e/sugar-maple-e.html
The above link is dead. Need a new one. 
9tmaxr (talk) 07:43, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A reference is there now for the leaf size info. Nadiatalent (talk) 12:26, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect information. 

message: Anyone want to say why they thought silver and sugar maple should be merged? They are two completely different species, both with decent pages -ChristopherM 01:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree—these are definitely two distinct species. Why is there a merging suggestion? Mr.absurd 05:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: I was just watching Subway (Homicide: Life on the Street). One of the last things the guy says before he dies is that the leaves on a sugar maple turn upwards before a rain to allow it to catch rainwater. Anyone know if there is any truth to that? Beeblebrox (talk) 02:39, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nobody seems to know here, so I've asked at the ref desk. If it can be sourced I'll add it. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:27, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  leaves? 

message: An OTRS submitter has contributed the following images. Feel free to use if useful. Dcoetzee 07:47, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  New images 

message: Hi , thanks for reformatting the caption, but I'm wondering why you removed the wikilink to Romeyn Beck Hough? It would be nice to point a few people in his direction, since his bio barely gets any traffic. --Hillbillyholiday talk 17:03, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi there, Hillbillyholiday. Thanks for your notice, I've added now a more specific link ot the destination article. I hope you find this okay. Cheers! Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 17:08, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice one, thanks ! --Hillbillyholiday talk 17:12, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  No problem bro! :-) Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 19:03, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Link

message: ...when Maple syrup, made from Acer saccharum is a Featured article. Just sayin'. David notMD (talk) 15:44, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Embarrassing that it is C-class... 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Not moved   (t · c) buidhe 02:20, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Acer saccharum →  – this species is very widely known by this common name, far more so than the scientific name. "Sugar Maple" is unambiguous, whereas the scientific name is easily confused with Acer saccharinum. Somatochlora (talk) 16:23, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

text: There is a norther sugar maple (this species) and a southern sugar maple (Acer barbatum/ Acer floridanum or Acer saccharum var. floridanum.) Hardyplants (talk) 21:15, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Is it ever called just "sugar maple" though? It seems pretty clear to me that this species is "THE" sugar maple, and that the common name is less confusing here than the latin. Somatochlora (talk) 15:28, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  I am not from the South so can't say what others call that tree, but as a general rule people leave out such things because obviously they are in the south and have no need to call it "southern".  But anyway that indirectly gets to the problem, common names are mostly regional names that are in common use by certain people but not all people. In parts of Canada it is called "Hard maple" or "rock maple"  and I am sure there is a French name too (Érable à sucre) but every where it is Acer saccharum. Hardyplants (talk) 19:59, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 11 December 2020 

message: A question that this article does not answer is why the Sugar Maple (as well as the Red Maple and Black Maple) is found only in the eastern part of the continent. The distribution is presumably not determined by climate since the north-south range is wide. If the reason is known, it would be a nice addition to the article.Bill (talk) 20:26, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Geographical Distribution