Red maple is one of the first trees to show off red flowers in the spring and displays a most magnificent scarlet fall color. Red maple is a fast grower without the bad habits of fast growers.

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 ...

Every spring, maple trees produce small flowers that turn into seeds. Normally, a cold frost kills some blossoms, but this year the usual chill didn't arrive at the right time.

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. Called samaras, the spinners ...

The red maple (Acer rubrum) is one of the most common, and popular, deciduous trees in much of the eastern and central U.S. It has a pleasing oval shape and is a fast grower with stronger wood ...

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 ho… ...

Maple trees, on the other hand, have lots of tiny pipes, which don’t typically freeze. This means they can start moving water and doing other tree things, such as growing leaves, several weeks ...

Flowers and trees are abloom . ... I wrote this column I suddenly noticed that the crabapple trees in the yard are haloed in green and the nearby silver maple tree is covered with blossoms.

A tree swallow cavorted over the river, making long, graceful swoops. We heard Townsend’s warblers and an orange-crowned warbler, ... Female maple flowers have two fused ovaries, ...