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There’s a lot to love about the sugar maple. It’s a tree that provides us with delicious syrup for pancakes and lumber for handsome furniture. But it will give any yard the chance to be the talk of the neighborhood in fall, with its brilliant blaze of bright orange-red foliage. It’s no wonder that four states (New York, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Vermont) claim it as their state tree.

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