maple

The maple it's a tree that integrates the family group of steel. The concept refers to numerous species that make up the genus known as Acer.

In general, maples are characterized by the hardness of their wood, which usually presents spots. These trees have simple leaves, flowers arranged in clusters or corymbs and fruits that are constituted as united samaras, arising in pairs.

Maple is part of the steel family.

Main features

A peculiarity of the maple is that, when its fruits are detached, they fall spinning and scatter their seeds in a radio very wide. This is because the samaras have a pericarp (the outer layer that covers the seeds) that extends like a wing.

Several species maple trees, on the other hand, stand out for their nectar Y pollen. In this way, the larvae of many lepidopterans and bees usually feed on this plant.

The human being takes advantage of maple so much for its wood as for your sap. The wood is used in construction and for the manufacture of musical instruments and the bats used in baseball, for example. Sap, meanwhile, is the raw material of the famous Maple syrup.

Maple syrup is often used on waffles and crepes.

What is maple syrup

The Maple syrup, also know as maple syrup, is a substance candy that is made with the sap of different species of maple (such as the black maple, the red maple or the sugar maple). It is used in waffles, crepes and various desserts.

The history marks that aboriginal peoples of United States Y Canada They were the first to prepare the maple syrup. The production process begins by drilling the trunk of the tree; There a tube is introduced so that the sage drips, being collected in a container.

Then the sap is cooked together with butter or other fatty substance, making it boil until the desired consistency is reached. To obtain one liter of maple syrup, about forty liters of sap should be used.

Some species

We already mentioned maple species that are used for production of the syrup. The sugar maple, to point out one of them, is the species of scientific name Acer saccharum.

The white maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), the red maple (Acer rubrum), the minor maple (Acer campestre) and the trident maple (Acer buergerianum) are other varieties of this tree, whose parts and components are often used in the medicine traditional.

Maple as surname and name of different places

Surname Maple is common in countries Hispanic. It is possible to name Francisco Arce, former Paraguayan footballer who with his team played the France World Cup '98 and the Korea / Japan World Cup '02 and who is currently working as a coach.

Guillermo ArceMeanwhile, he was an important Spanish professor and doctor. Born in 1901 and died in 1970, received the Grand Cross and Entrust of the Civil Order of Health for their contributions to the health field.

Maple, finally, is a municipality of the Foral Community of Navarra and a town of Cantabria in Spain, in addition to a commune of straight in Italy.