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The foliage cam rests on a Fraxinus Americana (White Ash) tree, which is known for its strength and large size. Once the sunny summer months have ended, the bright green leaves on the white ash tree start to change color. The green leaves turn a subtle yellow during the early fall, when the weather starts to cool down, and eventually the yellow is bold, noticeable and solid. Later in the fall, the white ash trees leaves will change from bold yellow to a bright red. This change takes place over a few weeks depending on weather. After the leaves have turned bright red, they darken over time into a purple. At this point in the fall, the full variety of colors can be seen on the tree. Purple is the darkest and last color the white ash's leaves turn before they fall to the ground.

From the foliage cam you can also see an Acer Rubrum, also know as a red maple tree (when looking at the cam, it is the tree with the smaller leaves). The red maple tree is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America. The red maple is predominately used as a landscaping tree, but it also provides resources for furniture and syrup. The tree is best known for its brilliant deep scarlet foliage in the autumn. In the fall, red maple tree leaves begin their color change with orange and yellow pigments. Later in the fall the leaves turn bright red. The leaves will fall off completely in the winter and the tree's twigs are glossy-red in the spring. The red maple also produces red flowers and fruit.

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  • location: ipswich

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zen den: leaf drop - foliage cam

The foliage cam rests on a Fraxinus Americana (White Ash) tree, which is known for its strength and large size. Once the sunny summer months have ended, the bright green leaves on the white ash tree start to change color. The green leaves turn a subtle yellow during the early fall, when the weather starts to cool down, and eventually the yellow is bold, noticeable and solid. Later in the fall, the white ash trees leaves will change from bold yellow to a bright red. This change takes place over a few weeks depending on weather. After the leaves have turned bright red, they darken over time into a purple. At this point in the fall, the full variety of colors can be seen on the tree. Purple is the darkest and last color the white ash's leaves turn before they fall to the ground.

From the foliage cam you can also see an Acer Rubrum, also know as a red maple tree (when looking at the cam, it is the tree with the smaller leaves). The red maple tree is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America. The red maple is predominately used as a landscaping tree, but it also provides resources for furniture and syrup. The tree is best known for its brilliant deep scarlet foliage in the autumn. In the fall, red maple tree leaves begin their color change with orange and yellow pigments. Later in the fall the leaves turn bright red. The leaves will fall off completely in the winter and the tree's twigs are glossy-red in the spring. The red maple also produces red flowers and fruit.

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location: Ipswich, MA

best viewing hours: 7:00am - 6:00pm

time zone: Eastern Time

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Mature white ash ranges from 50 to 80 feet but can reach a height of 100 feet. It is common for the white ash to have a spread of 40 to 60 feet.

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The wood of white ash is valued for its strength, hardness, heavy weight, and elasticity. Its use in wooden baseball bat industry, is famous.

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Native Americans favored white ash for tools as well as medicianl purposes: they used the leaves as a tonic for women after childbirth; the seeds as an aphrodisiac, a diuretic, and appetite stimulant, the bark for an itching scalp, lice, snakebite, and other sores, and juice from the leaves to relieve mosquito bites.

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The tenancy of white ash to form trunk cavities makes it valuable for nesters such as redheaded, red-bellied, and pleated woodpeckers. Once primary nest excavators have opened up the bole, it is an excellent habitat for wood ducks, owls, nuthatches, and gray squirrels.

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The vivid red and purple colors in scarlet red maples, sweet gum and dogwood trees come from anthocyanins, which also provide the red in cranberries and red apples, and are manufactured in the fall from sugars in the leaf.

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According to the National Arboretum: "A growing season with ample moisture that is followed by a rather dry, cool, sunny autumn marked by warm days and cool but frostless nights provides the best weather conditions for development of the brightest fall colors.

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“Masting” refers to the accumulation of various kinds of nuts on the forest floor that serve as food for hogs and other animals.

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Approximately every three to five years certain trees produce prodigious quantities of nuts; in between the "masts" they will produce almost none. Different species of trees exhibit this behavior at the same time over a large geographic area.

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When trees mast and produce a gargantuan nut crop, predators become satiated so that an adequate number of nuts will survive to succeed in propagation. It may also be more efficient for a plant to successfully propagate if there are a large number of sites for germination.

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The masting of trees is an important phenomenon in the ecological balance of the forest. Many animal populations will also be cyclical based on the availability of nuts each year.
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The foliage cam rests on a Fraxinus Americana (White Ash) tree, which is known for its strength and large size. Once the sunny summer months have ended, the bright green leaves on the white ash tree start to change color. The green leaves turn a subtle yellow during the early fall, when the weather starts to cool down, and eventually the yellow is bold, noticeable and solid. Later in the fall, the white ash trees leaves will change from bold yellow to a bright red. This change takes place over a few weeks depending on weather. After the leaves have turned bright red, they darken over time into a purple. At this point in the fall, the full variety of colors can be seen on the tree. Purple is the darkest and last color the white ash's leaves turn before they fall to the ground.

From the foliage cam you can also see an Acer Rubrum, also know as a red maple tree (when looking at the cam, it is the tree with the smaller leaves). The red maple tree is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America. The red maple is predominately used as a landscaping tree, but it also provides resources for furniture and syrup. The tree is best known for its brilliant deep scarlet foliage in the autumn. In the fall, red maple tree leaves begin their color change with orange and yellow pigments. Later in the fall the leaves turn bright red. The leaves will fall off completely in the winter and the tree's twigs are glossy-red in the spring. The red maple also produces red flowers and fruit.

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