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From my archives ~ Acer palmatum. Japanese Maple. Smooth Japanese Maple.
Japanese: irohamomiji, イロハモミジ, or momiji, 紅葉
Natural fractal. From wired.com ~ "Fractals are patterns formed from chaotic equations and contain self-similar patterns of complexity increasing with magnification."
From Wikipedia, "Japanese maple is a species of woody plant native to Japan, North Korea, South Korea, China, eastern Mongolia, and southeast Russia. Many different cultivars of this maple have been selected and they are grown worldwide for their attractive leaf shapes and colors."
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Red maple tree at Winkworth Arboretum in Surrey
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Acer palmatum showing its spectacular autumn colours at Dawyck Botanic Gardens near Peebles in the Scottish Borders.
This is the other Japanese Maple tree we have in our landscape-- a dwarf Lacy Japanese Maple. It is only four feet in height here, though I was laying on the ground for this shot so it looks taller... A slow grower, at full maturity it will probably be around 9 feet tall.
I like the deep lobed, lacy leaves!
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Every spring, my lawns look like this. I have a few maple trees and hundreds (actually, thousands) of the seeds sprout and root in my lawns.
The brown 'wings' are the samaras that spin down like a helicopter when dropped, with the maple tree seed contained in the heavy end. The ones that are standing upright have rooted and the seedlings have started to grow. Some seedlings (sprouts) can be seen, having already dropped their samaras.
While it looks like an infestation, it's easily obliterated with the first mowing of the lawn.
Maple seeds, in our yard. These are natural color, and, at this stage, about an inch/3 cm long. They grow in pairs, but the pair splits, and the individual fruit/seed is blown by the wind, twirling as it flies. They land all over the place.
One amazing fact -- a single maple produces probably into at least the thousands of these every year (probably more). Of all of the seeds produced over its lifetime, on the average, only one of them becomes an adult maple tree. How do I know this? Because if the number was even a little higher than that, the maple population would be expanding, and it isn't.