Have you looked closely at these seeds? What plant are they from?
Note:Â Because I lost the post from Tuesday, I’m changing the mystery seed so I can add it to the Life Photo Meme offered Thursdays at Adventures of a Free Range Urban Primate blog. The theme for the meme this week is gossamer. I’ll re-post the lost photo next Tuesday.
Edit: The answer is now up here.
(I apologize to anyone who gets this as a duplicate via RSS feed. The original post was lost during a recent crash of the server.)
The mystery seed 8 last week was indeed a maple key, a silver or swamp maple (Acer saccharinum) seed to be exact.
Silver maples are commonly grown as ornamental trees in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada. They have lovely, delicate leaves with deeply cut lobes.
It is easy to find silver maple keys because they are the largest winged seeds of the native maples and because the trees produce a lot of them. Many birds and small mammals use the seeds for food.
Hopefully a few of those seeds becomes a new tree.
If you tried to get on any of my blogs yesterday, you probably noticed that they were not available. Our hosting server had a major crash. I lost a couple of posts and some comments. If you left comments on late Monday or Tuesday, they are gone, sorry. I would appreciate it if you would leave them again.
I’ll be doing some restoration work today and hopefully everything will be running smoothly again soon.
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