UNDER(DOG)STORY (JAPANESE MAPLE)

Written By Alex Crowson
 
Japanese maple branches, Portland, Completely Arbortrary

A tree that didn’t ask for the praise, but certainly earns it, this week it’s the Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) and we chat about the underdogs of the forest, the understory trees. Then we check in with the Fungal Associated Press.

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals
Episode cover photo by Jeremy Reding

Additional Reading:

The Japanese maple (Acer palmatum)
New York Times Article from ‘92 on the Japanese maple
2,000 Year Old Date Palm Seeds Grow!
The Appalatian Apple Hunter
Tankers Turned Art

Fungal Associated Press:

From Camilla Southall: Tankers and Transit vans sculpted into steel forests
From Andrea Duck: Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 ‘Lost’ Varieties
From Sarah Wanamaker: Extinct date palms grown from 2000-year-old seeds found near Jerusalem

 
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