For this phenology assignment, I wondered about a different portion of Burlington than Salmon Hole. So, I visited Cresent Woods, an area conveniently close to the Redstone portion of the campus. Along the walk, one notices the amount of neighborhoods surrounding the woods, and at the end of the woods, it leads to a busy road filled with businesses. Yet, even in the woods, you can see the houses that stare over the woods.
I thought I spotted a red maple when I went into the woods. The bark is dark brown bark with vertical stripes. So, I looked at the surrounding trees to figure out the type of maple. The buds on these lower trees had red maple buds similar to the red maple. Since it is early in the season, there appear to be fewer buds on the trees, but it still has them. To confirm I checked the leaves that were under the tree, which majority were red maples. This led me to believe this tree was not one of the lookalike maples.
