#Maple Trees

[lindamarieansonsnaps]

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[gina025]

Maples in the wind

[geopsych]

Maples near the park blooming a year ago today.

[eskiworks]

Autumn Herald YCHs are back! I finally made one of my catsona Fern for myself (and as a sample). $75- $115 depending on character complexity, sign up and more info below! Click for info and sign-up! Feel free to send me an email (wolfnymph at gmail) if you can't or don't wish to use google forms ❤️🧡💛

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[susanoos-wife]

Itō Jakuchū, Maple Tree and Small Birds, c. 1765-66

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Things I Love About Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum)

They're aptly named; I've found bigleaf maple leaves that were a foot across.

And they make a fun hat if you're feeling silly!

If a decent-sized bigleaf maple gets damaged and loses its main trunk, it will often grow several new trunks in a circle.

They commonly host epiphytes like mosses and licorice ferns.

Their flowers are an important food source for native pollinators like bumblebees, and their seeds feed native wildlife like squirrels and birds, while deer and other browsing mammals may eat the leaves.

[lindadigsgraves]

For those in perpetual autumn mood...

Katlakalns Cemetery, Latvia

[purplespacekitty]

no because what really terrifies me about Stardew is that the fucking maple trees produce syrup year round. forgetting the fact that they produce syrup without you having to boil sap to make it, maple trees just shouldn’t be able to do that. they have different growth functions that operate at certain times of year as they cycle through the seasons and sugaring season is only for a small window of time between winter and full-fledged spring. too cold and the sap won’t thaw. too warm and the tree starts diverting energy to budding, which means all the sugar you find in the sap during sugaring season is going towards leaf growth. little to no sugar = bitter yucky syrup/no syrup. for sap to keep running, you have to have days just above freezing (32-55ish degrees F) and nights below freezing (anything below 32 degrees F). which means this is either how Pelican Town is year round or something else is afoot. and those maple trees would never have leaves if their sap was always sugary enough to be boiled into syrup, which means they would like die within idk a week? a month? without photosynthesis. they simply could not sustain themselves unless they had some other magical mechanism performing cryosuction for them while they also grow leaves and photosynthesize in the warmer months. and they’d need so much more fucking sugar. what are these trees, living thermoses? i just. i get it, it’s a game. but climate-wise, what in the fresh fuck.

[urban-meadow-cryptid]

box elder maple seeds, march 2025

these get huge and about half the size of my hand (for one seed copter).

metro atlanta, georgia, us

[lindamarieansonsnaps]

Katlakalns cemetery, Latvia

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[gher-bear]

For Earth Day 2025, I have to share my baby sugar maple trees! At least they should be sugar maple, that's the tree I found the seeds under. They are definitely maples.

I started them last year, by cold-stratifying a couple of maple seeds I picked up in the fall, and they grew big enough to produce four (4!) leaves each. They survived this winter and I just separated them into their own pots, so we are good to go this year. They look like sticks I picked up off the ground and stuck in some dirt. I love them.

Not sure about the long-term plan here. While my ultimate wish is to plant a baby maple I grew from seed into my own yard one day, I currently only have a balcony. So if they outgrow their pots before I can find a place (and they definitely will), it might be Stealth Gardening Time and they will end up somewhere secret with a good head start.

I think I have another couple of years before that happens, though. Trees for the future.

[geopsych]

Flowering maple trees looking like ornamental trees in the morning sunlight.

[eskiworks]

2nd Autumn Herald YCH for Kace! Who DOESN'T love a werewolf, especially in fall!

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[susanoos-wife]

Maple, Chrysanthemum, and Bush-Clover, by Kitagawa Sosetsu, mid- 17th century, Philadelphia Museum of Art