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| MAPLES, WHITE SPRUCE AND WHITE PINE ON 11TH ST. |
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| VIRGINIA CREEPER RAMBLING OVER A VIBURNAM SHRUB |
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| BOSTON IVY (Google file photo) |
Sunday, 8:30 AM. 61 degrees at the ferry dock, 65 on the back porch (usually the opposite). Wind SSW, calm with occasional gusts. The sky is clear, the humidity 80% and the barometer falling, predicting the chance of rain showers tomorrow.
The fall is so colorful I am going to spend a few posts simply taking photos.
The maples in the first photo are mostly red maple, Acer rubrum but one can't always be sure from a distance, since sugar maple, Acer sacharum, sometimes turns red as well.
The Virginia creeper photographed is Parthenocissus insertaa, which climbs by tendris, without adhesive discs. We also have the more southerly and common P. quinquifolia, which has adhesive discs as well as tendrils. Otherwise the two species are pretty much indistinguishable.
The Boston Ivy is in the same genus (Parthenocissus) and family (Vitaceae) and is occasionally found around the foundations of old structures, etc. It is an introduction from Asia.
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