Lab 2- Journal Post
The phylogenetic placement of the Sugar Maple is as follows: it branches from Eukaryotes to Plants, to Green plants, to Land plants, to Vascular plants, to Seeded plants, to Flowering plants and then Eudicots. Next, we can see the order is Sapindae, that Sugar Maples are part of the Soapberry family and the Acer genus. The last common ancestor of Sugar Maples is the Canyon Maple.
One common adaptation among all the trees I observed is stomata, which help regulate water loss during extreme temperatures.
An adaptation unique to the pine genus that I observed was that it has long and thin needles, so it has fewer stomata. This means it has even less of an ability to lose water during the cold Montreal winters.
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