The green ash in our yard rarely loses its beautiful winged samaras in autumn, so we are treated to the sight of them during the coldest months of the year. |
As in natural dispersal, we used samaras of the trees, and cleaned, dry shrub seeds. |
The fruits of Norway maple are paired samaras with widely diverging wings, Norway maple seeds are flattened, while those of sugar maple are globose. |
Samaras strikes hundreds of different poses, twisting and reshaping himself before the lenses of his various Polaroids. |
The fruits of the two trees are single-seeded, wind-dispersed samaras, which we refer to as seeds. |
The winged seeds or samaras are borne in pairs and twirl to the ground when ripe. |