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uxbridge · 3 months
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The snow is falling good today 🌨️
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aisling-saoirse · 7 days
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Acer saccharinum - Silver Maple
Today's plant profile is on a controversial favorite of mine, the silver maple.
This tree is reviled or loved depending on who you talk to, although it is naturally found in riparian and wetland zones the silver maple can thrive in dry, polluted, and urban environments; therefore it is extremely adaptable to a wide variety of soil conditions. Maples are usually thought of as a secondary growth forest species able to survive under shade, however silvers like a little more sunlight and are often found on forest edges.
You can identify a silver maple by its broken looking shaggy bark which is smooth silver brown when young. Most identifiable are the leaves which are symmetrical with 5-7 lobes and slightly toothed and fairly large (image 4-courtesy of inaturalist). In spring, red buds turn to young red flowers around march (image 2). Soon they turn into hairy green-silver developing fruit (image 3) which usually end up being a reddish-light green samara (the helicopter seedling) that are enjoyed by birds and squirrels. Usually the tree produces a lot, expect a lot of seedlings in sunny wet areas. All of those images are taken outside of my apartment window. I must note that occasionally silver maples retain seedlings during winter, this is another way to identify them (its not universal for some reason, haven't seen writting on this).
Given the harsh conditions of which it can survive its no surprise that the tree often grows into twisted, easily broken, messy forms. Branches often break off in storms and it's common for parts of trunks to die off and sprout again. In addition to that, urban dwellers hate the surface exploratory nature of its root system which kicks up sidewalk.
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Personally I find this vigorous nature appealing as, if I may be quite blunt, this tree is indestructible. I've seen this tree survive 4 feet of rushing water (below) and an ash trunk fall ontop of it (above), this is no quitter. You may also notice in my images the silver maples are growing in a thicket of bamboo...they can be competitive against more aggressive invasives. This makes them great for restoration projects, given our higher frequency of heavy precipitation events due to accelerated global warming, they can survive instability.
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This species is extremely common and native to the entirety of eastern North America above the Florida panhandle. It has been planted as a street tree all over the world, sometimes hybridized with other maples (typically acer rubrum).
Ethnobotanically, like many eastern wetland species, silver maple is seen as a medicinal plant by multiple indigenous tribes (given its range this includes numerous of groups). Some research discusses hot water infusions of bark as a treatment for common stomach ailments (sometimes as a tea as well). I only have experience with its sugary sap, nearly all maples have sweet sap which can be transformed into syrup, this isn't as good as sugar maple sap but it is possible. Additionally, silver maple is an excellent tree for pollarding, indigenous groups and settlers alike use the prolific branch growth for basket making.
In terms of propagating silver maples, I have never has anyone ask me to, seedlings will take off on any wet site. I believe you can also propagate branch cuttings from new growth taken during mid-summer months, I haven't personally tried this yet.
So that was the story of Silver Maple, look out for its unique leaves and keep in mind that even the ugliest trees can surprise us.
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doorajar · 2 years
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Gosh I love this music. Mahler was an inspiration, maybe ? Yum yum … is that kettledrums we hear there, briefly ?
Too bad Porsche exhales on Kinn’s “Sorry,” partially covering it. But the strings pause …
I've pinned this post because it contains the portion of the music I'm interested in that precedes what I posted below. The pause in the music that allows Kinn his two-word line suggests that it was written for this scene---but we now know that probably isn't the case since the same material appears in the earlier "Dear Doctor, I'm Coming for Soul" series of last year.
It's even possible that this score is "married"---the portion after the pause coming from another source, another composer even. If so, the match in mood and key is remarkable . . .
EDIT: my timing is wrong; "Dear Doctor . . ." aired this year, from March to June---so, contemporary with or even following production of KinnPorsche. So . . . what ? Both productions sipping from the same well ? An utter coincidence ?
For some reason people like this post ... so I'll pin it for a bit.
What is it ? Is it for the same reason that I do--the music ? The video clip (don't know if you call this a GIF or not) that has the sound track intact ? Or is it Kinn and Porsche, up close and personal as never before ? I guess that would be enough right there ! Works for me . . .
Further: just a week ago I learned
that the strings we hear briefly at the end of this clip are from a short piece called "Unspoken," by Silver Maple, found on YouTube. It's the part of the music heard before Kinn's "Sorry" that l thought sounded a bit like Mahler, and that I haven't learned the source of, yet.
This clip was shot with the iPhone 6S+ off my 24" monitor, edited in the phone and uploaded directly to tumblr; the sound is as heard by the phone from small Gigaware tabletop speakers.
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huariqueje · 1 year
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Autumn Fruit with Silver Maple   -   Brigitte Daniel
British, b. 1960s  -
Watercolour , 41 x 31 cm.   16 1/8 x 12 1/4 in.
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ofpine · 1 day
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silver maple
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carbombrenee · 12 days
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Reflection
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walwavet · 7 months
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Anyone know anything about silver maples? Northeast US. 300 ish years old, motel I'm living at wants them to go cause of a crack forming down the middle. I know nothing about trees, is there anyway to save it?
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thebotanicalarcade · 6 months
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rei-the-head-shaker · 10 months
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Good morning to you all, amazing souls! 🌞🖤
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greenmansgrove · 1 year
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Went on a hike around Fort Snelling National Park (and picked up a yearly parking pass while at it—many state parks to see in MN!). I started practicing druidry about a year ago now, with Beltane being my anniversary, and so this has been the first winter/early spring where I’ve actively noticed or looked for the first hints at the coming of spring. Minnesota has winter six months outta the year, so maybe that makes it easier to notice the changes, or else I’m just more anxious to find them. Only hints of the undergrowth and grasses reviving can be found. But a personally lesser-seen beauty is the flowering of the trees. Above are some buds I found and harvested on my hike, from left to right:
American elm, Silver maple, Boxelder, and Quaking aspen
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fullcravings · 2 months
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Mini Pancakes (Silver Dollar)
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uxbridge · 3 months
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Just a light dusting ❄️
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aisling-saoirse · 2 years
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Possible Champion Silver Maple
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doorajar · 2 years
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I'll add the second of the two videos I shot of this piece of Episode 7; the action (and the music) overlap with the previous vid, posted on the "Gosh l like this music" post ...
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maplethedarkshine · 2 months
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Fuck it, list of how how sonic characters taste according to espio
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"Spices and burned toast"
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"Ash and mint"
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"pomegranate but a bit salty"
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"disgusting" (jokingly, he'd actually taste like honey)
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"leather"
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"black coffee"
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"apples and ash"
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"pink lemonade"
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Creative Gardens, 1986
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