March 15, 2026
The Big Dead-Fish Clean-Up
A huge thank you to the volunteers who pitched in yesterday to remove all those dead fish from the Celery…
Nature Done Wright
Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs
April 14, 2018
The Secret Sex Life of Trees
The male flowers of a striped maple, encircled with stamens, which produce pollen. (Photo: Jennifer Blake-Mahmud/Special to NorthJersey.com)
The Record's Jim O'Neill has a cool article on the sex life of trees (who knew?).
Here's a sample:
The trees — those dormant, looming trees that have looked so dead and bare and gray for so long — those trees are about to wake up.
Then, they’re going to have sex.
And — as botanists will tell you — the sex life of trees can be downright bizarre.
One quick example. Remember those Nor’easters that slammed North Jersey in March, and snapped countless tree limbs? Because of that, the damaged branches of one tree species — striped maples — may be transforming themselves from male into female.
You can read Jim's story online here. (He took the above photo, too.)
A couple of amazing sidebars are here and here.
5 comments
-
Just wordplay, nothing more.
-
TMI
-
It is all in the spirit of the post and refers exactly to the same words.
-
Thanks for sharing.
-
I guess the phrase a maple can never change it’s stripes is now obsolete, lol. I was never fond of waking up and immediately having sex though so I wish them good luck.
Leave your comment
Related Post
March 14, 2026
Massive Fish Die-off @ Celery Farm
A huge thank you to the volunteers who pitched in today to remove all those dead fish from the Celery…
March 12, 2026
Horned Grebe at the Celery Farm
My first ever here. And the spring arrivals are arriving! The grebe was No. 186 on my Celery Farm life…
March 5, 2026
The Sky’s the Limit for This Birder
Fewer than 500 people worldwide have reported seeing this African bird – a blue-moustached bee-eater. Photo by Marc Chelemer By…
5 comments
MARIANNE HERRMANN
Just wordplay, nothing more.
Deedee Burnside
TMI
Marianne Herrmann
It is all in the spirit of the post and refers exactly to the same words.
sue
Thanks for sharing.
Marianne Herrmann
I guess the phrase a maple can never change it’s stripes is now obsolete, lol. I was never fond of waking up and immediately having sex though so I wish them good luck.