Species profile
Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum
11,328 on Toronto's streets — 1.64% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🍁 Fall colour Sep 25 – Oct 20: orange to scarlet, the iconic Canadian autumn tree
Toronto history — Sugar maple — the Canadian-flag species. Native, long-lived, slow-growing. Most big ones in Toronto are residential backyard survivors, not street-tree-program plantings.
Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. Sugar maple is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup and for its brightly colored autumn foliage. It may also be called "rock maple," "sugar tree," "sweet maple," or, particularly in r
Planting profile (from the City of Toronto)
| Native to | Native to Ontario |
| Mature size | Large, 20m high by 15m wide |
| Growth rate | Medium |
| Sensitivity | Sensitive |
| Best site | Lawns |
| Plants under overhead wires | No |
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| Banbury-Don Mills | 319 |
| Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills | 294 |
| Stonegate-Queensway | 230 |
| Rosedale-Moore Park | 222 |
| Islington | 208 |
| Princess-Rosethorn | 197 |
| Lawrence Park South | 184 |
| St.Andrew-Windfields | 173 |
Notable specimens
- 130 cm DBH at 179 EDENBRIDGE DR · view →
- 127 cm DBH at 119 ROCHESTER AVE · view →
- 120 cm DBH at 27 ELMBROOK CRES · view →
- 120 cm DBH at 54 MELDAZY DR · view →
- 114 cm DBH at 40 DEEPWOOD CRES · view →
- 111 cm DBH at 34 GLENRIDGE RD · view →
- 110 cm DBH at 2 DEEP DENE DR · view →
- 110 cm DBH at 64 ELEVENTH ST · view →