#acer platanoides

[geopsych]

You may not like it but this is what peak Norway maple looks like. 🌳

[floralfumofridays]

Floral Fumo Double Feature of the Week Halloween Edition (There are two parts the next is tomorrow): Norway Maple (Acer platanoides)

Tonight is Halloween, which is a mashup name for Hallow's Eve, but its also on a Thursday which is not a Friday but the day before Friday. Technically, Halloween, Oct 31st is the eve while Nov 1st is the actual day. Nonetheless, both are celebrated equally as connected holidays together. So this week will have two posts. Click here for Part 2

Yuuka herself has already found herself in a place that clearly wasn't Gensokyo. She knew it to be the Outside World, but didn't understand why she is here or why she is able to live when outsiders no longer believed nor feared in youkai like her. She has however seen plenty of other youkai with baskets, but no humans were to be found. Have youkai and vengeful ghosts won their grudges against humanity and surpassed its existence?

It didn't matter to her though. Even if all there were was youkai in the world, Yuuka would always find ways to prank anyone, it's her way of living.

This is the Norway Maple (Acer platanoides). Fitting for its stage name, its native to Norway, but it is also native to a good chunk of the rest of Europe and its range even extending to Central Asia. They are noted in the Fall by their brightly yellow and large leaves. This tree continues to live on, even through the hottest hots and the coldest colds, through air pollution to even growing in partial sunlight.

Unfortunately, because the tree is able to live in harsh conditions, it has become invasive to North America where it competes for terrain with other maples that are native. Once it has grown old enough, it becomes a very hard task to get rid of through its strong sturdy roots and keeps living through improper removal.

Unlike native North American maples, the tree's sap doesn't yield sap worthy of making with maple syrup, and it is much more difficult to work with when maple syrup making. The maple tree most associated with maple syrup is the Sugar Maple(Acer saccharum) which is not pictured and has a far higher harvest yield than the Norway Maple.

[crustynat]

Acer platanoides

•5 or 7 lobed leaves, each lobe is enongate and sharpened

•the bark is a dark gray colour and has verdical furrows and cracks

•flowers are yellow-green, sometimes redish, small, the tree is monoecious

•the samara connected at an wide angle, brown, their seeds are flat

[thecryptandtheincubus]

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HERBARIUM : Erable Plane (Acer Platanoides)

LIEU DE CUEILLETTE : Mesvres (Bourgogne)

[theodoreangelos]

Acer platanoides – Norway maple Tree number 1014, planted in 1958. Trunk circumference: 233 cm. Crown diameter: 10-12 m. Tree height: 11-15 m. Location: Forsthausgasse 4, Vienna XX – Brigittenau, Austria

[mirtapersonal]

A maple above the She-wolfling river, in BetweenMountains, on the Snowy Mountain, Poland.

That would be a literal translation of the names.. here's Polish/English/Croatian:

Klon/maple/javor (Acer platanoides) by the river Wilczka/She-wolfling/Mala vučica (vučićica?), in Międzygórze/BetweenMountains/Međugorje, on the mountains of Śnieżnik/Snowy/Snježnik, Poland.

[haikuckuck]

Blutahorn

Aussichtspunkt

[baaldigital]

ACER PLATANOIDES 'CRIMSON KING'

Der Rote Spitzahorn 'Crimson King' (Acer platanoides) ist ein dichter, rundlicher Großbaum oder Baum, der grüngelbe, in Doldentrauben angeordnete Blüten hervorbringt. Sie erscheinen im April. Seine Rinde ist dunkelgrau, längsgefurcht. An einem sonnigen bis halbschattigen Standort erreicht er gewöhnlich eine Höhe von ca. 15 m und wird ca. 10 m breit. An den Boden stellt der Rote Spitzahorn 'Crimson King' keine besonderen Ansprüche.

[anskupics]

Acer platanoides — Norway maple

[flowerishness]

Acer platanoides (Norway maple)

Last year, I came to the conclusion that I wasn't doing enough about tree flowers. Unfortunately, it was already late May and most trees bloom in the spring. Welcome to the Norway maple at the end of my street. Native to temperate Eurasia, it was introduced to North America in the mid-1700s as an ornamental shade tree. Now it's a common street tree in the endless suburbs.

Urban trees need to be carefully planned. Norway maple may have pretty flowers in the spring and colorful leaves in the autumn but it can lead to sidewalk heave and expensive pruning and leaf pickup, all paid for by municipal taxes. My advice is to do a little research before you plant a tree. Case in point: the roots of the Douglas Fir in my front garden have torn my driveway to pieces.

[addicted2wasps]

Welp, I've done the leaf thing for this year. Went out and collected a bunch of leaves in the rain. The first one is similar to one I did last year, (just with 2023 leaves), and the second one is different. I really wanted to go outside despite the weather. I might make other leaf arrangements tomorrow or on Monday, depending on my mood. I always enjoy doing this even though the results are similar to previous years. It never gets tiring for me! I find it really interesting that when the leaves are organized in a rainbow sequence, the dark Norway Maple leaves, (I think Acer platanoides), look more like their natural brownish/purple colour when neighbouring red leaves, than when they are randomly placed with different colours. It makes them look more blueish. I find the scattering of light effect to be very cool.

[francescointoppa]

Acero riccio (Acer platanoides L., Sapindaceae)

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[bonefall]

Reply roundup: Maples, Flowerscar, Educators

Inbox still closed (I have sooo many asks) but here's a few quick answers to the replies✨

"Who was educator before Ferncloud? Who's the educator in other Clans?" @halogenwarrior

Dappletail was the Educator before Ferncloud! There's a tiny note in the upcoming outline for Firestar's Quietus where she decides to pass the torch to Fern before her death in TNP proper.

In other Clans, I simply haven't chosen the educator. WindClan and ShadowClan are still pending their Family Tree overhauls before I can comfortably pick one, but something about RiverClan is telling me they had strokes of pretty bad luck with theirs.

I think Lilystem (Shade and Heavy's mother) was one once, but the mentor/apprentice line was probably broken by TigerClan and Mistystar had to choose a new one in TNP. So if there's a background blorbo everyone's got who would make a good teacher feel free to shout them out.

(Re: Can't be Sedgecreek because she becomes deputy <3)

Mosspelt seems like a good choice.

"Are there maples in England?" @ashestosparks

Three! I'm only using two of them.

The only native maple is the Field Maple (Acer campestre), which is a pretty interesting tree in general. This is the one that produces edible sap that ThunderClan will want to trade for, and it has a unique quirk; it HATES forests.

It's so named because it likes being in open field environments. As a forest progresses outward, the population of field maples will also dance on the outskirts, attempting to avoid shady conditions. They like to stand as the lone tree in hilly plains, where the wind can scatter their samaras far and wide. So, only WindClan has access to these.

There's also the introduced Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) and Sycamore Maple (Acer pseudoplatanus). A Sycamore Maple is relevant as the tree that produces the tarspot-blighted leaves that Fireheart uses to channel Spottedleaf, but I won't be including Norways at all. Sycamores are also absent from the Lake Territories.

In Clanmew the word for "Sycamore" is not the word for "Maple." Clan cats don't see these as the same tree.

(Mapleshade's name is kind of a mistranslation, but Sycamoreshade would be pretty long in English. Maplewhisker/star of SkyClan would also be a Sycamore.)

"Do humans notice ShadowClan's project?"

Yes! Stay tuned!

"Who is Flowerscar?"

A background cat in ShadowClan I have become unreasonably attached to

Her canon name is "Flowerstem" and I wanted to conflict rename her so I could get some more cats with honor titles. ShadowClan is kind of low on non-Tigerkin prodigal fighters, so I've decided to beef her up from just being a background cat into a recurring strong brawler.

She's pure silver with a big, gnarly scar across her face and down her shoulder from where Bramblefake lands a nasty slash on her.

ShadowClan's family tree is so bad that I will be throwing it out completely, so it remains to be seen if she's going to remain the daughter of Grassheart and Stonewing, or even if Whorlpelt and Snaketooth are going to stay as her siblings.

"How do the cats enter the afterlife in BB!TBC and what are the rules?"

The sisters are still going to get a feature here, using their collective powers. They don't do it for the Clans, though, they do it because they understand very well that there is an evil god being born and he must die.

It is also in memory of Leafpool, a stranger who still died for them because it was the right thing to do.

Fallenleaf is also going to come off the bus for a moment to lend her strength to this massive channeling. They have just enough juice to send 2 cats from each Clan.

"Is Larkstripe in the Dark Forest?" @thesnailphilosopher

Sadly no. StarClan took pity on her and her courage in this instance. After the code change, they're much harsher on Clerics, but Larkstripe had lost everything in pursuit of saving 1/5th of StarClan.

If they had known she wouldn't be the last to push this issue, and that there would be a bloody rebellion a few years later, they would have been much angrier and sent her to the Dark Forest. But at the time, they decided to end this sad situation quietly.

She was one of the few to vote in favor of allowing Ripplestar into StarClan.

[thecryptandtheincubus]

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HERBARIUM : Erable Plane (Acer Platanoides)

LIEU DE CUEILLETTE : Mesvres (Bourgogne)

[katiajewelbox]

The Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) is an introduced tree species in the UK that many people assume is a native species because it is found in many human-planted forests and landscaped areas. This non-native species is not considered invasive in the UK and provides habitat and food (leaves, seeds and flower nectar) for many bird and insect species, so it is a decent addition to the landscape. This tree has gorgeous golden autumn colours in October and November!

Music: Dryad's Forest by Derek and Brandon Fiechter

[neverfeltthewinterquitesodead]

ive seen virginia creeper (parthenocissus quinquefolia) several places in denmark and sweden which does make me feel a little better about there being norway maple (acer platanoides) everywhere in new england. Quid pro quo Clarice........