Hard maple
Encyclopedia
Hard maple is the wood
yielded by Acer saccharum in its wider sense (i.e. Sugar maple
& Black maple
). It is a favorite for floors, bowling alleys and furniture. The weight per cubic metre is roughly 740kg.
Wood
Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression...
yielded by Acer saccharum in its wider sense (i.e. Sugar maple
Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum is a species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas...
& Black maple
Black Maple
Acer nigrum is a species of maple closely related to A. saccharum , and treated as a subspecies of it by some authors, as Acer saccharum subsp. nigrum....
). It is a favorite for floors, bowling alleys and furniture. The weight per cubic metre is roughly 740kg.