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Thursday, November 4. 2010

Sugar Maple

This one of my Sugar Maples is always bright orange in the autumn. Most of my others are always yellow, and some are in between. It's a mystery.


Posted by Bird Dog at 10:03 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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This is America! It can be orange if it wants to!
#1 SCOTTtheBADGER on 2010-11-04 14:21 (Reply)
A "tree guy" (PhD) with the Dept of Botany at Cornell told me many, many years ago that sugar maples are "persnickety" and do just as they please unless you purchase specific cultivars. Well, persnickety is half the fun (I did enjoy his choice of words), so we've just planted at whim with some remarkable results in color. Love that tree!

We couldn't get to your neck of the woods this fall but enjoyed roaming the back roads of Michigan last week. There is nothing like the fall season, so many colors, smells, and rituals associated with hunkering down for winter.
#2 jma on 2010-11-04 15:24 (Reply)
BD, Joyce Kilmer said it best in his poem called Trees.
I've always loved that poem.
#3 jappy on 2010-11-05 10:11 (Reply)
Could it have something to do with the soil??
#4 Lord Whorfin on 2010-11-05 14:12 (Reply)

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