Flowers (and seeds) 2023

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  1. AlainK

    AlainK Renowned Contributor Forums Moderator Maple Society 10 Years

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    I should have started a thread earlier.
    Today :

    Acer campestre, the one with cork-bark :

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    Palmatum : hundreds of samaras !

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    Trompenburg :

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    Not sure many 'Orange Dream' will make it :

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    'Autumn moon' :

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    This seedling that I thought was from shir. 'A. Moon' but that I now suspect to be a sort of A. circinatum :

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    Acer sinense (I suppose) :

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    maf Generous Contributor Maple Society 10 Years

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    A bumblebee working the flowers on Ichigyoji. Looks like she collected a decent amount of pollen in her pollen baskets...
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    AlainK Renowned Contributor Forums Moderator Maple Society 10 Years

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    A few samaras on my 'Koto no-Ito', not sure they'll stay long enough to mature :

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    This is a large 15 year old tree, no clue what it's called but it has many seeds.
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    Really need to get me one of those tame bumblebees that poses for pic's !!!
     
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    AlainK Renowned Contributor Forums Moderator Maple Society 10 Years

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    Acer tataricum ssp. ginnala. Nice colours if you look closely :

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    furry little friends

    japonicum 'Green Cascade'

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    These seedlings are in my Cornus Kousa pot..do you think they are seedlings of the mother tree? IMG_0541.jpeg
     
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    Here in Boise, Idaho we are having a spring with a lot of flowers and seeds on most of my maples so I took some photos:
     

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    Here are some more...
     

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    They are hellebore seedlings.
     
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    Ahh ok thanks
     
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    maf Generous Contributor Maple Society 10 Years

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    Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum' time lapse.
    May 1st:
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    May 11th:
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    AlainK Renowned Contributor Forums Moderator Maple Society 10 Years

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    It's the first time I've seen samaras on my (potted) A. griseum :

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    AlainK Renowned Contributor Forums Moderator Maple Society 10 Years

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    The only Acer palmatum I have in the ground is from a cutting of the first I bought in the early 1990s, a 15 cm tree.
    It's now about 4-5 metres tall and this year has hundreds - maybe thousands of samaras :

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    Not so many seeds on my (potted) 'Trompenburg', just about a dozen, but they're so elegant :

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    Following on from @AlainK 's post of 'Trompenburg' I am posting a few pics of Japanese maples with upright samaras, starting with my 'Trompenburg':
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    The classic upright samara poster child, Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum':
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    Strangely, 'Sango kaku' ('Senkaki') seems to have upright samaras also; I noted this in a previous year but did not follow through to see if they remain upright later in the season when the nutlets get heavier:
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    And lastly one that is not upright but I really liked the photo and wanted to share, 'Red Pygmy' :
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    Starting to get lots of samaras now, here are a couple of maples that are fruiting really heavily. A. campestre 'Red Shine' is always prone to botrytis (gray mold), but this year even a lot of the nutlets are covered with the stuff, on the east side.

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    AlainK Renowned Contributor Forums Moderator Maple Society 10 Years

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    This one decided to stay on the tree (O-sakazuki) :

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