4-1/4 colonial maple baseboard, 2-1/4 maple casing

@New Hampshire

in Matsushima, Miyagi

Maple.

This is probably the most spectacular of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Japanese maple bonsais. Here is a photo from almost exactly one year ago.

Acer rubrum, commonly known as Red maple, grows up to 90 feet. The leaves usually have 3 to 5 lobes with V-shaped notches and irregularly serrated edges. Leaves turn scarlet, orange and yellow in autumn. The flowers are followed by red, paired winged seeds. These trees can be found throughout a various states of the Southeast and typically grow in low, wet areas, along streams, deciduous woods and drier upland areas.

Because the wood isn't very hard, this tree is used for lower quality furniture or veneers. It is also used for fuelwood. The red maple has very few threats other than fungal spots which can be seen on the leaves in late summer.

Resources:

What tree is it? www.oplin.org/tree/

Kirkman, L. K., Brown, C., & Leopold, D. (2007) Native Trees of the Southeast. Timber Press, Portland, Oregan

Bioimages

www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/frame.htm

This solo Sugar Maple near the Yosemite Chapel is in its second week of color.

Taken in a riverside park after a little autumn rain.

Fall leaves - panning - long handheld exposure - Japanese maple

Touzenji

Maple Zale (Zale galbanata) at Plainsboro Preserve. Originally identified as Zale phaeocapna, but it turns out that species (per BugGuide) is an early-season moth.

Maple leaf catching some early morning sun rays.

One of two Japanese Maple trees in my front yard showing its fall colors.

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Windham County, Vermont, US

Beautiful red Maple leaves Taken at State College, Pa. last week...Happy Halloween to all my Flicker friends.

Backyard maple tree

From my favourite maple tree this morning.

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With a flare

The streets of my neighborhood in Cedar Falls, Iowa are tree-lined. Some trees have dropped all their leaves, others are in their full glory. A block from my house, a brilliant, young, sugar maple frames the trunk of a large, old, leafless tree. It was warm enough to draw from my tripod stool! This sketch was done back-to-back with "Cars Under Maple". In my new pocket-size Moleskine. October 25, 2010

SIGMA SD1 + 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC

Nanyo Eboshiyama Park, Yamagata

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the camera almost does it justice...my favorite japanese maple is at the peak of it's color, just in time for thanksgiving...life is good... :-)

wishing you and yours many blessings and much to be thankful for...xo

@home

My Dad made some amazing, delicious maple syrup.And he doesn't even like maple syrup. (I KNOW!) Blogged here.

Red Maples at the NC Arboretum in Asheville turning colors just as their name suggests.

Green maple leaves in city park in the spring afternoon