October 23, 1926: 91 years ago today

​Over 90 years old and still beautiful color!  This red maple specimen was collected on October 23, 1926 by Otto Jennings during a field trip of the Botanical Society of Western PA to Chestnut Ridge in the beautiful Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania.  Red maple (Acer rubrum) is one of the most common trees in eastern North America.  You can find it from southern Canada down to Florida and Minnesota down to eastern Texas. And it is renowned for its beautiful scarlet red foliage in autumn.  Happy fall!  

Red maple doing its beautiful fall thing.  Ohiopyle State Park, September 30, 2017.