Showers of Tiny Flowers LbNA #60968 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | E.H. Wilson  |
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| Plant date: | Mar 1, 2012 |
| Location: | Arnold Arboretum |
| City: | Jamaica Plain |
| County: | Suffolk |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Mar 1, 2012 |
To find the letterbox, follow these directions:
-Head down Meadow Road to the second trash can on your right. Across the road you will find a silver maple with low-hanging branches; look for the tiny yellow flowers
emerging from the red buds.
-Continue along Meadow Road until you reach the Acer mono (painted maple) with a twisted trunk on your left (it may be behind ropes).
-From the opposite side of the painted maple, take 45 steps straight back into the maple collection until you reach a red maple from 1924 (use the tag to find the date).
-Turn left and take 29 steps to Acer saccharum, a sugar maple. What do you notice about the scientific names of sugar and silver maples?
-Turn left and take 18 steps to reach Acer saccharinum f. laciniatum, the cutleaf silver maple.
-Turn right and locate a large, 3-trunked tree on the edge of the meadow, Acer saccahrinum ‘Lutescens’, and search for the letterbox. Remember to leave everything just as you found it for the next explorers!
-Head down Meadow Road to the second trash can on your right. Across the road you will find a silver maple with low-hanging branches; look for the tiny yellow flowers
emerging from the red buds.
-Continue along Meadow Road until you reach the Acer mono (painted maple) with a twisted trunk on your left (it may be behind ropes).
-From the opposite side of the painted maple, take 45 steps straight back into the maple collection until you reach a red maple from 1924 (use the tag to find the date).
-Turn left and take 29 steps to Acer saccharum, a sugar maple. What do you notice about the scientific names of sugar and silver maples?
-Turn left and take 18 steps to reach Acer saccharinum f. laciniatum, the cutleaf silver maple.
-Turn right and locate a large, 3-trunked tree on the edge of the meadow, Acer saccahrinum ‘Lutescens’, and search for the letterbox. Remember to leave everything just as you found it for the next explorers!