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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.
Taken at Dartington Cider Press, one of the few remaining trees with leaves on after the recent high winds.
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.
Autumn has sprung here in Canada. My Sugar Maple Tree in my backyard has started it's yearly ritual of turning red... looks nice at the moment but not as vibrant a red this year as in other years.
There's a double row of maples in Westmoreland Park. When I visited here last week, just two of them were in fall color, while the rest were not quite ready.
Portland, OR
This tree in Saline turns, nicely orange-red; but keeps its green for an unusual effect.
In 1889 Saline Village had a successful maple tree planting program, and I think this is one of those trees. Every Autumn I try to get a picture.