Many people travel to New England in October to see the wonderful fall color in the deciduous forests. A large proportion of the color is provided by maples, including the sugar maple, red maple and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Long valued for its beautiful fall ...

All of these cultivated red maple trees are female, meaning that every late spring to early summer these trees are guaranteed to have helicopter-like samaras. This maple was patented in 1961 (although ...

As a child living in the mid-Atlantic region, I recall watching the “helicopters” of maple seeds floating down from the trees and how we’d try to run around and catch them before they hit the ground.

Although males are frequently more impressive than females in the animal kingdom, that’s not always the case with plants. Female red maples, for example, not only display the species’ burgundy-tinged ...

For over 30 years, Leon County Government has been proud to support our native ecosystem through the Adopt-a-Tree Program, which provides County residents the opportunity to have a tree planted on ...