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SUGAR MAPLE TREE USES

• Bowling alleys and bowling pins .


• Popular wood for baseball bats.
ABOUT: • Manufacture of musical instruments.
• Inner bark as a cough remedy.
• Acer saccharum, the sugar maple
or rock maple, is a species of maple
ECOLOGY:
native to the hardwood forests of
eastern Canada. • Sugar maple is native to areas with cooler climates.
• Acer saccharum is a deciduous tree • Among the most shade tolerant .
normally reaching heights of 25–35 m • The sugar maple can grow comfortably in any type of
(80–115 ft),and exceptionally up to 45 m (148 ft). soil except sand.
LEAVES AND FRUITS: • Sugar maples engage in hydraulic lift.
• Displaced by the Norway maple.
• The leaves are deciduous, up to 20 cm (7.9 in)
long and equally wide, with five palmate lobes
• The fall color is often spectacular, ranging from
bright yellow on some trees through orange to
fluorescent red-orange on others.
• The flowers are in panicles of five to 10 together,
yellow-green and without petals; flowering occurs
in early spring after 30–55 growing degree days.
• The sugar maple will generally begin flowering
when it is between 10 and 15 years old.
• The fruit is a pair of samaras (winged seeds).
MOUNTAIN LAUREL ABOUT:
• Its unusual method of dispensing its pollen.
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: • originally brought to Europe as an ornamental plant
• Kalmia latifolia • Wood is heavy and strong but brittle, with a close,
• Calico-bush straight grain.
• Spoonwood • It is used as an analgesic.
• Used as a decoction of the leaves for diarrhea.
LOCATION:
• mountain and hill slopes FLOWERS AND FRUITS:
• Eastern United States • Showy, medium sized
• White to purple
LEAVES: • clustered with pollen-bearing stamens tucked into
• pointed or blunt pockets in the fused petal
• light green beneath • fruit is present as rounded dry capsules
• Hairless
• edges not rolled
• often crowded near the twig ends
• The leaves are 3–12 cm long and 1–4 cm wide
ECOLOGY:
• Found on rocky slopes and mountainous forest areas.
• It thrives in acidic soil .
• The plant often grows in large thickets.
• Component of oak-heath forests.
• In low, wet areas, it grows densely, but in dry
uplands has a more sparse form
LAVENDER
Lavendula angustifolia

DESCRIPTION:
Lavender is a bushy perennial growing from one to three feet tall. 
•perennial plant (it lives more than 2 years).
•The leaves are often used in cooking.
•Possible health benefits include improved concentration, digestion, and brain aging.
•Very high doses may cause vomiting, coma, and pulmonary edema

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