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What's wrong with the maple trees? They look dead, and their bare branches are covered in brownish "spinner" seeds instead of leaves. Worried homeowners across the state are calling their local ...
You may have noticed lots of those helicopter maple tree seeds filling up rain gutters or piling up on the sidewalk this year ...
Why are some maple trees not dropping seeds? Good Question. Towering high above Nancy Thue's house is a massive maple tree that creates an annual annoyance for the retired teacher. "Every school ...
Iowa's silver maples and silver maple hybrids produced a surplus of seeds this year, likely as a response to several years of ...
My car was covered with the small reddish and yellow seeds. They somehow even got under my windshield wipers. I thought they were maple tree seeds, but I was not sure so I was curious enough to ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – You may have noticed something different about the maple tree seeds this year: they’re pink. In the past few weeks, maple trees have been dropping samaras ...
Q. Last fall, I collected Japanese maple seeds from trees in the neighborhood and planted about 100 of them in small pots, left them out over the winter, and did not get a single sprout.
Andrew Dickerson receives funding from the National Science Foundation. When wind or other disturbances detach winged maple seeds called samaras from their parent tree, they spin through the air ...