Burnaby BC

Maple Leaves 无锡惠山红叶

Huishan,Wuxi,China;11/29/2013

Contax 645;Distagon T*3,5/35;Planar T*2/80

Fuji Provia 100F

Scan by Nikon Super COOLSCAN 9000ED

I love my maple tree. These autumn colors are so wonderful. I don't really want to think that in two or three weeks most of these leaves will be shredded and spending the winter in my compost bin.

maple leaf

Fall 2013 Maple Trees at Ball Farm

Japanese Maple in the Center for Asian Studies, Vienna

Valley City, OH

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Red Maple, Potomac-Garrett State Forest, Sept. 25, 2020, Photo by Melissa Nash

This maple is red, yellow and green. Highway 325, Oct. 8, 2012.

at RIKUGI-EN ,tokyo (六義園).

RIKUGI-EN is a japanese style garden.

one of our maple trees is showing its full autumn splendour

Colorful maple leaves in fall

Wolfville, Nova Scotia

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.

Maple leaf caught in the sunlight

in Matsushima, Miyagi

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

Beautiful Japanese Maple

Pan Am Games Flags

Taken at Westonbirt Arboretum 2008

Latin name: Acer palmatum Thunb / カエデ（楓）

Taken in a riverside park after a little autumn rain.

Taken at Dartington Cider Press, one of the few remaining trees with leaves on after the recent high winds.

Sanzenin, Kyoto, Japan

三千院, 京都

Green maple leaves in city park in the spring afternoon

Honouring Scott Joplin

Compare this maple leaf with the plane leaf in the previous photo. They look very similar, but they are from completely different trees. So how do you tell the difference? By the fallen leaves themselves, with difficulty, but when the leaves are on the tree it's easy. Maple leaves and the shoots themselves always grow in directly opposite pairs along the stem. Plane leaves and shoots grow singly from the stem or branch. Also the bark on plane trees is very distinctive, appearing in two tone mottled patches.