Negundo aceroides Moench. Sapindaceae. Ash-Leaved Maple. Box Elder.
A tree of northern North America. This tree, says Hough, is tapped for sugar in Canada and is now being planted in Illinois for sugar-making. Vasey says experiments in Illinois show the box elder to give more sap and a more saccharine sap than the sugar maple and that this sap makes a whiter sugar. Douglas says the Crow Indians make sugar from its sap, and Richardson says this is the tree which yields most of the sugar in Rupert's Land.
Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.