But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots.

RICHMOND — It’s not just New Englanders who think the sugar maple tree is special. When Green Berkshires brought a Minnesota scientist to study a threatened stand of these particular maples in Mount ...

“You can tap pretty much any maple tree – silver, sugar – and you will get sap,” said Richard DeVries, resource manager at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen. For the past ...