FALL COLOR PHOTO GALLERY: MAPLES

↑ Acer saccharum Green Mountain

↑ Acer saccharum Green Mountain (leaf detail)

↑ A. rubrum Red Sunset

↑ A. rubrum Red Sunset (leaf detail)

↑ A. saccharinum along the Fox River, Batavia, IL

↑ A nearby seedling of Acer x. Freemanii (a natural hybrid of A. saccharinum and A. rubrum) - NOTICE THE INTERGRADE BOTH IN COLOR AND LEAF SHAPE!!!

↑ Now here is commercially propagated A. x Freemanii Autumn Blaze, showing even more of the Silver (saccharinum) leaf form and ALL of the Red (rubrum) foliage color - imagine that!!!

↑ The same planting of commercially propagated A. x Freemanii Autumn Blaze, as uniform as cookies on a tray.  THIS, my friends, is Horticulture!!!