Eye Candy Friday: Redbud Maple
While I know they're about as rare as wool at Rhinebeck, I've always loved the flowers of the red
Note: I stand corrected. I've always called the maples that make these flowers redbud maples or just redbuds. As Alwen points out, they are in fact red maples, and the redbud is a whole different critter. You learn something new every day. I will still have more pix of, um, those trees there tomorrow.
posted by Lucia at
2:03 PM
6 Comments:
I heard Redbud and I think of Funny Farm. I just can't help it.
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Carole Knits, at 6:35 PM
Looks like the beautiful flowers of the scarlet maple, Acer rubrum, to me.
Redbud flowers (Cercis canadensis) usually are a purplish-pink or sometimes white. They are a leguminous shrubby tree, and the flowers come right out of the branch! Then they make a thin flat pod like a peapod.
Maples usually bloom about three weeks earlier than the redbud here in Michigan.
(Sorry, some people have Conan the Grammarian: I got the brain that aspires to be Hortus Third!)
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Alwen, at 9:03 PM
i think we have a couple of these in our yard. and what's funny is that i had never noticed these buds before until this year.
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maryse, at 11:46 PM
Well I'm glad somebody is setting Conan straight here! Alwen must be related to me somehow.... Mostly I know A. rubrum as red maple. Redbuds aren't native trees around these parts, though they are occasionally planted in protected spots. They are one of the very few things I liked about central PA. Springtime when the redbud and dogwood bloom across the hillsides, very pretty.
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knitnzu, at 7:59 AM
Are red maples red, or do the leaves come in green like most of the other maples? The only maples I recognize are bigleaf, broadleaf and Japanese.
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roxie, at 9:46 AM
Whatever they are, they're a harbinger of spring, and I'm all for that!
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