Wildlife Window: Exploration moves to Loveland’s streets named for maple trees

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Wildlife Window: Exploration moves to Loveland’s streets named for maple trees

Fruits contribute vital information needed for identifying trees. Culturally, people mostly​ name fruits according to the names of the plants that bear them. Biologically, botanists name​ fruits according to how they develop from the flowers that bear them. Botanically speaking, a fruit that develops a wing to facilitate wind-borne dispersal from​ the parent plant is called a “samara.” I discussed this fruit type last month because samara fruits…