Samara

Maple.

Samaras are the seeds of maple trees and can be found in deciduous or hardwood forests.

They travel by the wind catching the wing-like structures, making the seeds look like helicopters as they move.

Wild ginger.

The fruit of the maple tree is called a samara and consists of a seed pod with a wing.

Usually two pods grow together.

though when thoroughly dry they fall apart the wings are thin and light and the wind sometimes carries them a long distance the maple blooms in the spring or early summer and though its flowers have only stamens or pistils and no bright petals yet they are very pretty maples like willows and cat-tails often have two kinds of flowers one maple tree will often have all staminate flowers and will look as if trimmed with fringe as the staminate flowers have slender stems like threads the red maple which blooms early in the spring before its leaves come out has bright red fringes sometimes these red-flowered trees bloom in january in florida when the trees and bushes around them are bare and you can imagine they make the swamps where they grow look very bright the pistillate flowers are not quite as airy as the staminate ones but still they make pretty fringes upon the trees the wind blows the pollen from the staminate flowers to the pistillate ones growing on neighboring trees and that is why the flowers hang out on long stems some maples have green fringes and some have yellow ones but all are beautiful after the flowering season is over the staminate flowers disappear but the pistillate flowers are followed by clusters of samara which are sometimes almost as bright in color and as pretty as the flower fringes when the samaras are ripe they fall from the tree and are blown about by the wind they cannot fly as far as the plumed seeds but they sometimes get carried quite a distance the seed within the samara often sprouts soon after it falls you can see little maple trees starting to grow by the roadside or even along city sidewalks or in lawns the samaras of the early flowering maple trees fall quite early in the summer but there are other maples whose samaras remain on the trees until autumn maples make beautiful shade trees and some species grow to a large size one of the largest and most beautiful of them is the sugar maple which is not only valuable as a shade tree but yields delicious maple syrup from its sap the bark of this tree is tapped that is a hole is bored through it into the wood beneath early in the spring and a little wooden tube or trough is driven into the hole a pail is hung or set beneath to catch the sap as it runs out sap runs best when the days are warm and the nights are cold then there are merry times in the sugar camps the sap is collected in large kettles and boiled to syrup or until it hardens into sugar just before it is ready to turn to sugar it makes delicious wax you pour the hot thick syrup upon the snow and when it thickens into a sticky paste you eat it it is better than any kind of candy at least i think so a great deal of sugar is made in the new england states where the maple grows abundantly and in the early days the only sugar some of the people had was maple sugar sometimes the sap of other trees as birches or elms is made into syrup but none is as abundant or as good as the maple syrup the wood of the sugar maple is hard and is valuable for furniture and other uses indeed the wood of most of the maples is prized for furniture making the bird's-eye maple is a very pretty satiny wood dotted over with round spots that look a little like eyes it comes from certain sugar maples whose wood is full of little knotty places The curled maple is also a pretty wood with wavy shining lines made by irregular streaks in the wood.

It is sometimes found in sugar maples and sometimes in other maples.

Maple wood is light in color and the bark of the tree is rather smooth.

It is gray in most species and often has white spots on it.

End of chapter 13 chapter fourteen of little wanderers elms the american elm is one of the most beautiful trees in the world it is so majestic in size and so graceful in form if you do not know the elm tree get some one to point it out to you at once and you will feel that you have made a new friend it is a very good thing to make friends with the trees and to learn to know them when you see them elm trees have winged seed pods or samaras the trees are covered with pretty short fringes in the spring time very pretty but not as airy and pretty as the maple fringes the pistillate flowers are followed by samaras that do not grow two together and that have the wing growing around them instead of from one end the bark of the elm is very handsome it is marked quite regularly and is easy to recognize it is a good thing to learn to know a tree by its bark the bark of trees is an interesting and beautiful subject to study the wood of the elm is tough and hard and is used in building ships and making wheels and for other purposes where a tough hard wood is required there are a number of species of elm trees but the best known one is the beautiful american elm that is everywhere used in parks and for shade trees next to this is the red elm or slippery elm whose inner bark is fragrant and mucilaginous and good to chew this bark is good for colds and is sometimes ground up and made into lozenges every country boy lays up a supply of slippery elm bark to dry in the attic along with his nuts chapter

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The winged shape belongs to a wider family pattern, but the calendar varies among species.

On a sugar maple, the fruits commonly develop as two joined samaras, their wings extending away from the shared attachment.

Each half has its own seed-bearing portion and its own wing.

What looks like one paired object therefore contains two potential dispersal units.

Changes in shape can alter rotation and the resistance encountered during descent.

The familiar outline gives a useful starting point for understanding flight, but individual fruits are not identical aircraft.

For these reasons, many samaras remain near the parent tree.

Winged dispersal increases the possibilities for movement without ensuring a long journey for every seed.

And he's not the best defensively, but with Graham covering him, he seemed to have that quite well covered.

And I think Samare also does a decent job at just covering the gap in between them.

So yeah, I'd go with Bocat, same as yourself.

In fact, and then I suppose we'll go down the other end of the pitch.

We've had Sumare as sitting and then we've had Galbraith and we've had Deveny in the last couple of games who are there.

So...

Would you maintain that? I mean, Samare, do you think he looked tired? Yes.

Yeah, I think he looked tired in the second half against Charlton and then very much so against Cardiff.