{"id":15798,"date":"2016-05-30T20:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T20:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=15798"},"modified":"2016-05-30T20:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T20:52:42","slug":"lifestyle-plant-identification-from-field-guide-norway-maple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-plant-identification-from-field-guide-norway-maple\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle:  plant identification from field guide:  Norway maple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares another neighborhood find.<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed, over the years, maple trees that have dark red, or purple, leaves.  For some reason, I imagined I knew what kind they were, but had just forgotten.  Today I noticed another one, and decided I&#8217;d rediscover the kind it is.<\/p>\n<p>I think I must never have known that kind of maple.  According to my sources, it&#8217;s likely the Norway maple, of which I&#8217;ve never heard.  It&#8217;s not native to here, but is planted often in urban areas. In shape, its leaves resemble the sugar maple.  Not all Norway maples have purple leaves; some have green.  Those trees are likely easy to mistake for a sugar maple.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great time of year for plant identification:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forestry.usu.edu\/htm\/treeid\/maples\/norway-maple\">forestry.usu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brockman, Frank C. and Rebecca Merrilees.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; <u>Trees of North America:  A Guide to Field Identification<\/u>.  New York:  Golden Press,<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares another neighborhood find. I&#8217;ve noticed, over the years, maple trees that have dark red, or purple, leaves. For some reason, I imagined I knew what kind they were, but had just forgotten. Today I noticed another one, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-plant-identification-from-field-guide-norway-maple\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle:  plant identification from field guide:  Norway maple<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,181],"tags":[1630,1629,1552],"class_list":["post-15798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-lifestyle","tag-maple-tree-with-purple-leaves","tag-norway-maple","tag-plant-identification-from-field-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15798"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15806,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798\/revisions\/15806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}