maples in bloom

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About a week ago, I showed you a few pictures of some trees in the neighborhood just starting to bloom. A tree near our parking space had some lettuce-y green stuff coming out of its buds and the buds on our sad little tree, Bud, had started to turn green.

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After watching these two trees closely for the past week, I've realized that they are the same type of tree! Two days later, Bud's little buds started opening.

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Two days later...

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And then two days after that, there was the lettuce!

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It turns out the lettuce is flowers. Little green flowers.

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Bud is covered with them today.

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His brother tree down the street, who was so far ahead with the lettuce, is still in the lead with scores of these green flower bundles.

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I have decided that these are maples, Norway maples. It's mostly a guess, from Bud's opposite branching pattern, little brown buds, and the fact that the most common street tree in our town is the Norway maple.

Fun fact: The town's tree inventory states that 21% of Brookline's street trees are Norway maples. Only 4 1/2% are ash trees like mine!

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