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color of amur maples
I have an answer for Amur maples. Last year I posted, asking why some amur maples
(acer ginnala) were not red or crimson but instead were yellow for Fall color. Whether it was a genetic problem or a climate weather problem. What I did last year was cut every amur maple that was yellowish down to the ground. They came back but are much smaller trees than the red ones. This year, all of my Amur maples, even the yellow cut back ones of last year, are flaming red or crimson. A few have a touch of yellow. So it looks as though the answer is that the color is dependent on yearly environment conditions. And that I needlessly cut back the amur maples. So I guess genetically all amur maples have the potential of crimson red color but that the environment circumstances for that year will determine the color of the Autumn leaves. P.S. a sidenote. I have found that my currants give me as much color as the amur maples plus the fact that the currants give me beautiful fruit for the summer. And so I should have planted more currants rather than amur maples. So often we worry about some minor details of things when the best answer is a whole new and different other category. Another example is that I bought apple varieties that were resistant to fireblight and where the problem now arises of apple-cedar-rust. If I had simply instead gone around to the apple trees in the area that had done the best and grafted those trees, I would probably have been better off. Archimedes Plutonium, whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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