The silver maple tree (Acer saccharinum) is one of the most common trees in North America. It generally grows 50 to 80 feet tall, though a 10-year-old sapling will stand approximately 25 feet tall.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The silver maple is also known as Acer saccharinum, soft maple, river maple, ...

Bob Lominska has tapped into several silver maple trees on his property to get maple syrup. After drilling into his trees and hanging buckets, Lominska has gotten around 5 gallons of raw sap so far ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The sugar maple (Acer saccharum) can be considered the star of eastern North ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

A maple tree in Walford continues to leaf-out March 30 as conditions warm. Iowa’s silver maples and silver maple hybrids produced a surplus of seeds this year, likely as a response to several years of ...