In the past few weeks, maple trees have been dropping samaras, or more commonly referred to as “helicopter” seeds, in vibrant red and pink colors. But what’s causing the change in color?

You may have noticed lots of those helicopter maple tree seeds filling up rain gutters or piling up on the sidewalk this year ...

Helicopters is the fun name for maple seeds, also known as samaras ... Using red maple trees as an example, Johnson said some years they will have 20% female flowers, the part that pollinates ...

The seeds, popularly known as keys or helicopter seeds ... of the northern ash range and threatens billions of ash trees. Ash has shield-shaped leaf scars (at the point where the leaf breaks ...

Iowa's silver maples and silver maple hybrids produced a surplus of seeds this year, likely as a response to several years of ...

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Scientists have discovered one of the earliest ... and winged seeds like those of the maple tree, often called 'helicopter' seeds. The earliest-known plant seeds date back to the Late Devonian ...