Technically, you can make maple syrup from any maple tree, excluding Japanese maples. However, different Maple trees from North America have different length 'sugaring seasons' or windows of time to collect good sap. Also, different types of trees have vastly different sugar concentrations in their sap. Sugar Maples are the ones most used to make commercial maple syrup. Red Maples, including October Glory Maples, has the second-highest sugar concentration but a very short window of time to collect sap in comparison to Sugar Maples. Red Maples won't produce the quantities of sap needed to make a significant amount of maple syrup.