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  • Vermont State Tree Sugar maple Aceraceae Acer saccharum Leaf: Opposite, simple and palmately veined, 3 to 6 inches long, 5 lobed with entire margin; green above, paler below. Flower: Yellow to green, small, clustered, hanging from a long (1 to 3 inch) stem, appearing with the leaves. Fruit: Two-winged horseshoe-shaped samaras about 1 inch long, appearing in clusters, brown when mature in Autumn. Twig: Brown, slender and shiny with lighter lenticels, terminal buds brown and very sharp pointed. Bark: Variable, but generally grayish brown,on older trees may be furrowed, with long, thick irregular curling outward ridges. Form: Medium to tall tree (to 100 feet) with very dense elliptical crown

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