Buy It: Bareroot Red Maple Tree, $18.99, Arbor Day Foundation Those maple flowers turn into those propeller “spinners” that twirl down to the ground in the spring.

The red maple is the first native tree to blossom on Staten Island. From a distance, it's easy to spot the bright red of the female flowers (at top of photo) and orange-red appearance of the male ...

Meet spring’s red maple and native mason bees… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X ...

Now the flowers on red maple don’t hold a candle to your garden variety cherry, magnolia or redbud. They’re small, apetalous (plant geek for 'no petals') and range from kinda reddish to green ...

I’ve been watching red maple flowers every spring for a few years now and photographing them. The pictures help because I am poor at keeping a journal. I realized I had never learned about how ...

Red maple flowers are much like those of the earlier silver maples, but other maples flower in different growths. Sugar maple, Norway maple (introduced, but common), mountain maple and box elder ...

The red of those two cultivars is not the norm, and so adds to their popularity. The "red" in red maple actually refers to the tree's flowers, which are among the first to bloom in late winter ...

Red maple benefits wildlife in many ways, Hamilton added. Buds, flowers, seeds and even the bark are food for moth caterpillars, aphids, leafhoppers and beetle larvae.

Red maple trees are capable of producing all female flowers or all male flowers, a condition known as monoecious. However, a single tree can produce both male and female flowers ,and this is known ...