Byline: Susan E. Tomer Staff writer
Throughout the Northeast, maples, beeches and birches are the most prevalent providers of autumn color.
There are about 200 species of maples native to North America, Europe and Asia. The most common in our region are the red, sugar and silver varieties, capable of growing to about 130 feet. The sugar maple, of course, is used for making maple syrup but its hard wood is also prized for firewood and furniture.
In the fall, the sugar maple's leaves are the most familiar along our roadsides - where they are increasingly being planted in place of trees destroyed by Dutch elm disease - in their seasonal coats of red, …
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