The pictures are from South Africa, April 2022. red fall color. i dont know if its either in sect palmata or its a relative of the Trident Maple...
3 week old field maple (acer campestre) seedlings. not the best time to germinate but the wet winters are just warm enough to not have any frost
https://www.docdroid.net/7utmHsy/191full-pdf this pdf is a guide to mass propagating virtually any species of maple from seed to grow as fast as...
2 week old Norway maple seedlings.
Yummy stuff! I wish I lived in a cold climate. The only "maple syrup" we have here in California is the fake processed corn syrup.
Hopefully these seedlimgs establish and become a nice sugarbush.
hundreds of seedlings growing near Ottawa
The heatwaves are getting excruiating in europe. I think the buildings there aren't meant to keep homes cool, so more and more people will succumb...
Nope, unfortunately the seeds from sacramento were all unviable and empty. I bought these seeds online, they were collected in Hungary. I always...
germinating seeds
I believe both acer ser. monspessulana and acer ser. saccharodendron have a common ancestor that eventually went extinct in eurasia. they appear...
I couldnt fit all of these images in the first post, so heres the second part: This post is very obnoxious, but i felt tempted to post the entire...
just for a fun summer experiment, I inoculated the maples with some arbuscular mycorrhizae, why not? I poked a few holes near the root zone if...
At stanford. poor thing
