Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winged seeds called samaras grow on maple trees. These are seeds from the Japanese maple, _Acer palmatum_. AlessandroZocc/iStock ...

Watch the incredible transformation of a maple tree as it grows from seed to sapling in this 138-day time-lapse. Starting with the collection of samaras, the process covers seed preparation, ...

Watch the incredible transformation of a maple tree as it grows from seed to sapling in this 138-day time-lapse. Starting ...

PASADENA, Calif.—The twirling seeds of maple trees spin like miniature helicopters as they fall to the ground. Because the seeds descend slowly as they swirl, they can be carried aloft by the wind and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many homeowners and tree huggers in Greater Columbus are expressing concern about the health of several species of maples in the ...

If you think you’ve been seeing an invasion of helicopters this year, you’re not imagining things. Southern Minnesota maple trees are producing a copious amount of seeds that flutter from their ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Trees, yards and gardens are lush with all the rain recently. But some people wonder if the weather has also helped stop a pesky problem this time of year. Why are some maple trees not ...

Q. Last fall, I collected Japanese maple seeds from trees in the neighborhood and planted about 100 of them in small pots, left them out over the winter, and did not get a single sprout. Advice on how ...

Seeds, samaras, helicopters: Whatever you call maple seeds, there is a bumper crop this spring in Iowa. Iowa’s silver maples and silver maple hybrids produced a surplus of seeds this year, likely as a ...