Sugar Maple Vs Red Maple. Naomi is right about the trunk of the maple and the large leaves but theyre also more of an upright tree. You have to tap what you have so go for it.
Sugar maple is usually confined to moist but well-drained soils while red maple will develop a root system suitable for almost any site from dry ridges to swamps and bogs. In addition to these two main woods different species of maple and other lookalikes such as birch dogwood etc will give different reactions. Acer nigrum black maple.
Sap from the sugar maple will usually contain more sugar than sap from a red maple tree so sugar maple trees are more coveted from an economic standpoint for producing maple syrup.
This long-lived shade tree features unique maple. Red Maple Acer rubrum grows at about twice that rate or about 2 ft. Up north the reds run a shorter season and go dark a lot quicker than the rock or sugar maples. Also the Red Maple has a bitter sap as compared to the Sugar Maple.