Have Boxelder Maple Trees? Make Boxelder Syrup!

Food, Plants
[caption id="attachment_14989" align="alignright" width="480"] Tree Tapping[/caption] Do you really adore 100% real maple syrup and maple sugar? If so, maybe you would enjoy making your own maple syrup. But you say you don’t have sugar maple trees! There is good news, though. There are other trees whose sap can be used to produce sweet syrup for your morning pancakes or French toast. Have you ever heard of boxelder syrup? Confusing Boxelder Trees with Poison Ivy It is not rare for a person to identify a boxelder tree as poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans). You can see why this is the case if you compare the images provided with this article. Because I am aware of the similarity between the two plants and the tendency of others to make a mistake, I…
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