Maple White or sugar maple (Acer
saccharum) is also known as a rock maple
and hard maple. It is normally off-white in color
but often may have a dark brown heart. Maple
often has many elegant figures in the grain, the most
common of which lead to varieties called curly, tiger,
quilted or fiddle back maple. Of the more than
twenty species of maples in the US and Canada, sugar
maple is the most common.
