Sugar maple tree named Commemoration

Abstract

This disclosure concerns a new and distinct variety of Acer saccharum (commonly known as sugar maple tree) characterized by its exceptional growth habit with thick, leathery leaves, a tight, compact, oval shaped crown with a heavy distribution of leaves which are not subject to tatter, and its extreme ease of propagation.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of sugar maple tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the unique combination of its relatively fast and dense growth, freedom from leaf tatter, numerous strategically placed branches, its abundance of thick, dark colored, leathery leaves, thick in comparison to most sugar maple trees, with more leaves on the compact oval crown, its relative ease of propagation and an excellent survival rate of buds throughout the winter months, with the leaves turning red, orange and pink in the Fall, the red color exhibiting ten to fourteen days prior to most sugar maple trees with leaves persisting for a longer period of time after the first killing frost than other sugar maple trees observed.