Bigleaf Maple - How to identify them. Nerdy About Nature - Tree Guide | Ep.1
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Kicking off the Nerdy About Nature series with the iconic Bigleaf Maple. A deciduous tree found in coastal British Columbia. Responsible for maple syrup and the largest leaves of any maple tree in Canada!
Grateful for the biodiverse backyard we call home, we encourage our community to (re)connect to nature through conservation and education. This new series helps our vision in doing just that. Tune in to learn about the myriad of trees you might find while out exploring. Then head out to identify them.
This flick was made by Nerdy About Nature; giving you fun-facts and observations about nature and all it's radness to make your next venture into the outdoors more enjoyable.
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~We'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations~
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Directed & Produced by Ross Reid
Shot by Blair Richmond
References:
- 'Northwest Trees: identifying & Understanding the Regions Native Trees' by Stephen F. Arno & Ramona P. Hammerly. Published by The Mountainers, Seattle, WA .1977
- 'Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast' by Jim Pojar & Andy MacKinnon. Published by BC Ministry of Forests & Long Pine Publishing, Vancouver BC. 1994
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Bigleaf maples are icons of lowland forests in the PNW, often found in areas of disturbance such as riparian zones or logging areas alongside other first generation successors like douglas fir. Their scientific name is Acer Macrophyllum - Acer being the name of the genus for all maples, and macrophyllum basically breaking down into ‘macro’ or ‘big’ and ‘phyllum’ which stems from the greek word for ‘leaf’.
Bigleaf maples are easy to identify from afar because of their wiggley outline with low sweeping branches, and are usually covered in thick mats of moss, lichen and ferns. These trees are actually known to carry the highest quantity of epiphytes than any other in our area, and mosses often grow so thick on oldgrowth big leaf maples that they form a soil of their own which allows other species of mosses as well as ferns and even small sprouting western hemlocks to take root.
Up close, you can identify a big leaf maple by its bark, which starts green and smooth in young trees or shoots and grows greyish brown with age. Although the easiest way to ID them are by their massive maple leaves with are commonly the size of your face! Now, while the classic maple leaf shape is a common characteristics of all Maple trees, their fruit is pretty easily identifiable as well. In the spring, Big Leaf Maple flowers form neary the leaves in drooping bunches of small, light green flowers which - side note - are delicious to fry up and eat. After the bees, birds and insects do their thing, the tree forms paired winged fruits like this, which is commonly referred to as a ‘samara’. You may recognize these funky little winged nuts from other forest walks, and this is an example of some crazy bioengineering at play - see how these wings resemble propeller blades in a way? When these fruits fall from the tree, they spin in a similar way to airplane props which slows the rate at which they fall, making them more easily swayed off-course by winds, which then take the seeds further from their mother tree and thus helps the species propagate and spread into new areas.
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Kicking off the Nerdy About Nature series with the iconic Bigleaf Maple. A deciduous tree found in coastal British Columbia. Responsible for maple syrup and the largest leaves of any maple tree in Canada!
Grateful for the biodiverse backyard we call home, we encourage our community to (re)connect to nature through conservation and education. This new series helps our vision in doing just that. Tune in to learn about the myriad of trees you might find while out exploring. Then head out to identify them.
This flick was made by Nerdy About Nature; giving you fun-facts and observations about nature and all it's radness to make your next venture into the outdoors more enjoyable.
_______________________________________________________________________________
~We'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations~
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What's Ross wearing in this film?
Shop The Sitka Work Tee - https://ecologyst.com/products/the-si...
Shop The Wool Shirt - https://ecologyst.com/products/copy-o...
Shop The Bucket Hat - https://ecologyst.com/products/bucket...
Shop The Hiking Shorts - https://ecologyst.com/products/the-ca...
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Join the adventure with ecologyst -
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#inthewild #leaveitbetter
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Directed & Produced by Ross Reid
Shot by Blair Richmond
References:
- 'Northwest Trees: identifying & Understanding the Regions Native Trees' by Stephen F. Arno & Ramona P. Hammerly. Published by The Mountainers, Seattle, WA .1977
- 'Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast' by Jim Pojar & Andy MacKinnon. Published by BC Ministry of Forests & Long Pine Publishing, Vancouver BC. 1994
_______________________________________________________________________________
Bigleaf maples are icons of lowland forests in the PNW, often found in areas of disturbance such as riparian zones or logging areas alongside other first generation successors like douglas fir. Their scientific name is Acer Macrophyllum - Acer being the name of the genus for all maples, and macrophyllum basically breaking down into ‘macro’ or ‘big’ and ‘phyllum’ which stems from the greek word for ‘leaf’.
Bigleaf maples are easy to identify from afar because of their wiggley outline with low sweeping branches, and are usually covered in thick mats of moss, lichen and ferns. These trees are actually known to carry the highest quantity of epiphytes than any other in our area, and mosses often grow so thick on oldgrowth big leaf maples that they form a soil of their own which allows other species of mosses as well as ferns and even small sprouting western hemlocks to take root.
Up close, you can identify a big leaf maple by its bark, which starts green and smooth in young trees or shoots and grows greyish brown with age. Although the easiest way to ID them are by their massive maple leaves with are commonly the size of your face! Now, while the classic maple leaf shape is a common characteristics of all Maple trees, their fruit is pretty easily identifiable as well. In the spring, Big Leaf Maple flowers form neary the leaves in drooping bunches of small, light green flowers which - side note - are delicious to fry up and eat. After the bees, birds and insects do their thing, the tree forms paired winged fruits like this, which is commonly referred to as a ‘samara’. You may recognize these funky little winged nuts from other forest walks, and this is an example of some crazy bioengineering at play - see how these wings resemble propeller blades in a way? When these fruits fall from the tree, they spin in a similar way to airplane props which slows the rate at which they fall, making them more easily swayed off-course by winds, which then take the seeds further from their mother tree and thus helps the species propagate and spread into new areas.
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