The second, also infected, was cut down as the same fate was expected. In May 2018 the oldest two Oregon Maples in Europe, 175 years old, were removed from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland: the first had an interior which was beginning to rot, and it fell after inclement windy weather. The previous national champion is located in Marion, Oregon, and has a circumference of 25.4 feet (7.7 m)-or an average diameter at breast height of about 8.1 feet (2.5 m)-and is 88 feet (27 m) tall with a crown spread of 104 feet (32 m). It has a circumference of 38.6 feet (11.8 m)-or an average diameter at breast height of about 12.3 feet (3.7 m)-and is 119 feet (36 m) tall with a crown spread of 91 feet (28 m). The current national champion bigleaf maple is located in Lane County, Oregon. Although not traditionally used for syrup production, it takes about 40 volumes of sap to produce 1 volume of maple syrup.īig Leaf Maple leaves are used as browse by black-tailed deer, mule deer, and horses during the sapling stage.Ī western Oregon study found that 60 percent of bigleaf maple seedlings over 10 inches (25 cm) tall had been browsed by deer, most several times. Interest in commercially producing syrup from bigleaf maple sap has been limited. While the sugar concentration is about the same as in Acer saccharum (sugar maple), the flavor is somewhat different. Maple syrup has been made from the sap of bigleaf maple trees. In California, land managers do not highly value bigleaf maples, and they are often intentionally knocked over and left un-harvested during harvests for Douglas fir and redwood stands. Native Americans used the wood to make canoe paddles. The wood is primarily used in veneer production for furniture, but is also used in musical instrument production, interior paneling, and other hardwood products the heartwood is light, reddish-brown, fine-grained, moderately heavy, and moderately hard and strong.
Highly figured wood is not uncommon and is used for veneer, stringed instruments, guitar bodies, and gun stocks. The wood is used for applications as diverse as furniture, piano frames and salad bowls. The bigleaf maple is the only commercially important maple of the Pacific Coast region. Nevertheless, syrup production has become a localized industry in bigleaf maple groves where weather conditions (including sub-freezing winters) are especially suitable, such as near sea-level in British Columbia and at higher elevations along the West Coast from Washington through Northern California.
The bigleaf maple have been used for creating syrup but it is not common, as the sugar maple has a higher sugar content. The winged fruits are eaten by squirrels, and by grosbeaks in the winter. It is very rare north of Vancouver Island though cultivated in Prince Rupert, near Ketchikan and in Juneau. Bigleaf maples can form pure stands on moist soils in proximity to streams, but are generally found within riparian hardwood forests or dispersed, (under or within), relatively open canopies of conifers, mixed evergreens, or oaks ( Quercus spp.) In cool and moist temperate mixed woods they are one of the dominant species.
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