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| All photos below are from a single red maple, growing in the west floodplain with a thick trumpet creeper vine stuck to its trunk. You can get a good look at the form of this tree on a previous post from February 2019, found here. In the above photo, we see squirrel teeth marks on our red maple sign. Several arboretum signs have the same markings, as well as our irrigation lids. Someone needs to do a microplastic awareness campaign for our squirrel population. |
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| Maples are famous for their foliage. This photo succinctly shows why: each leaf contains a showy display from green to yellow to orange to red. |
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| If you want a natural source of variation in color, these leaves would provide a great model. |
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