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In a message dated 3/13/2009 7:06:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu writes:

> Boxelder - Acer negundo - can be tapped, and syrup
> made from the collected sap, I suppose like any other
> member of the maple family.  Sometime in the last 5
> years or so, the Proceedings of the NNGA annual
> meeting had an article in which the authors had
> tapped sugar maple boxelder, black walnut, and
> butternut, if I recall correctly, and syrup from all
> species were well-received in a taste test.        
 

According to my deceased Father, black walnut can give one the scoots if too much fresh walnut sap is drank. That agent that causes it supposedly dissipates when cooked down and is safe then. I've never tried it.

Jerry



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