12 Trees for Harvesting Natural Syrup

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What is Syrup?

You are most likely familiar with the sweet, sticky, flavorful maple syrup. If you’ve ever had the real thing no knock-off full of high fructose corn syrup can replace it.

But syrup doesn’t necessarily come from a maple tree. It can be made by dissolving sugar in boiling water or by boiling the sugar-rich liquid of many plants and trees such as sugar cane, corn, agave, maple or any of our maple tree alternatives on the following pages.