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 ...

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 such an ...

Native red maple trees burst into flower in April, gloriously announcing the arrival of spring with their fluffy red blossoms high in the treetops. Red maple, sometimes called swamp maple, is the most ...

Red maple is called red because its twigs, buds, and flowers are all red, and its leaves turn a flaming red in the fall–in fact, its leaves are among the earliest in the fall to start turning. It is ...

Throughout October, one life form in these parts satisfies more than all others. It is the red maple — your red maple, my red maple, the one down the road. It is the red maple of lowland swamps and ...

Red maple trees, like this one in Calais, Vt., can be beautiful even before autumn foliage hits. Credit: AP file New Englanders have a right to brag about the fall foliage that graces our hillsides in ...