{"id":47,"date":"2023-03-05T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T17:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/?p=47"},"modified":"2023-03-05T12:38:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T17:38:54","slug":"phenology-tree-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/2023\/03\/05\/phenology-tree-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Phenology Tree Species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This weekend, I visited Centennial Woods in order to find a species from the following list: \u00a0red maple (<em>Acer rubrum<\/em>), Northern red oak (<em>Quercus rubra<\/em>), paper birch (<em>Betula papyrifera<\/em>), or American beech (<em>Fagus grandifolia<\/em>). I originally thought this would be an easy task, and I would be in and out; however, it proved to be much more difficult. In order to properly identify one of these species, I had to look for a relatively mature tree with low buds that were developed enough to be identifiable. Additionally, many of the trees that I had come across had not enough buds visible to properly identify them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, I was able to find what I believe to be a red maple (<em>Acer rubrum<\/em>). It took me a little while to gain confidence in this identification as I was a little unsure that it was not a different variety of maple. The buds on the tree that I examined were shiny, red, and had smoother tips with only a few scales which allowed me to eliminate a sugar maple as a possibility since sugar maples have more scales that are pointier. Also, the bark was gray and smooth, with only a few ridges developed at the bottom, also consistent with a red maple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8008-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8008-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8008-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8008-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8008-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8008-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"51\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8007-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8007-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8007-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8007-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8007-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8007-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"49\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8010-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8010-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8010-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8010-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8010-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG-8010-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I visited Centennial Woods in order to find a species from the following list: \u00a0red maple (Acer rubrum), Northern red oak (Quercus rubra), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), or American beech (Fagus grandifolia). I originally thought this would be an easy task, and I would be in and out; however, it proved to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"scarrowa","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/author\/scarrowa\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scarrowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}