AUTUMN AND MAPLES TREE

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Hari ini saya ingin posting tentang autumn (musim gugur), dan tentang pohon maple (yang selain menjadi icon musim gugur itu srndiri, ternyata menyimpan keunikan lainnya...yang mungkin belum kalian ketahui).....

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AUTUMN AND MAPLES TREE...

Autumn is the season after summer and before winter. In the United States this season is also called fall. In the Northern Hemisphere, it begins with the autumnal equinox in September and ends with the winter solstice in December. In the Southern Hemisphere, it runs from the autumnal equinox in March to the winter solstice in June.

In many places, autumn is a time for harvesting most crops. Deciduous trees (trees that lose their leaves every year) lose their leaves, usually after turning yellow, red, or brown.

Maple tree is plant that belongs to the family Aceraceae. There are 128 species and couple of thousand varieties of maples that can be found mostly on the northern hemisphere. Fossil evidences indicate that maples exist on the planet at least 100 million years. Certain species of maples vanished during the ice age

Maples come in the form of trees as well as shrubs. The trees can grow to be forty five meters in height, which shrubs usually stay at less than ten meters tall. Most Maple trees are deciduous but there are a few evergreen species in the Mediterranean region and Southern Asia.

Maple flowers can be red, orange, yellow or green. The flowers are quite small but when found in huge numbers in a tree can give amazingly colourful results.

The most popular use of maples is as ornamental trees, and you can see them in many homes, municipalities and businesses. The most fast-growing and cold-resistant maple is the Norway Maple. Other maples, particularly the more unusual or smaller species, are used as specimen trees.

They are also widely used in the bonsai art, because they respond ideally to techniques that are used for leaf ramification and reduction, and many of the maple species can be used.

Maples are obviously important as sources of wood and syrup. The dried wood of these trees is used to smoke food. The Sugar Maple is used to produce syrup, which is achieved by tapping the tree for sap, then boiling it into maple sugar or maple taffy. Other closely-related species of the Sugar Maple can also be used, but they do not yield as much syrup. Sugar Maples can live to be 300 years old.

Maple trees cannot be tapped for sap until they are at least 30 years old. Tapping is done in late winter, draining the tree of up to 10 percent of its sap. It takes up to 50 gallons of sap to create one gallon of maple syrup.

Larger species of maples give valuable timber. Bowling pins and alley lanes, butcher's blocks and pool cue shafts are made of Sugar Maple wood. Baseball bats are also made with maple wood. Timber

These maple trees are gaining in popularity because of their fall colour. Some maples give a brilliant red colour while others are a spectacular yellow. Some can even end up giving you several colours ranging from red through yellow and orange, and all on the very same tree. When picking maple trees, you should know which colours you want according to their species, so that you know what to expect and whether it is the colour you prefer showing up in your garden. Keep in mind that when living outside of their ideal zone range, many maple trees tend not to give out their regular colours.

 

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