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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Wild Blossoms

One of my favorite blossoming trees is a species of our national tree, the Maple. According to Wikipedia there are 128 species of this tree but I am quite confident that the one pictured above is a native of this area. It's a Big Leaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Its fresh green leaves and rich hanging bunches of tiny flowers seem particularly characteristic of spring here.

4 comments:

Stefan Jansson said...

Nice to see, our Spring is on hold as it is snowing this morning.

JoJo said...

Maples are so gorgeous, esp in the fall.

William Kendall said...

From the link, it doesn't grow here. Pretty!

The Furry Gnome said...

It looks like mid-May!