Due to their tiny size and lack of flashiness, maple tree flowers usually go unnoticed. However, these tiny flowers profusely adore the trees long before the leaves start to form. Due to a long lasting and severe Winter, the maple tree flowers are 2 to 3 weeks late here this year.

Since a hard Freeze (20 degrees Fahrenheit) is forecasted tonight,
the odds are that these flowers may be damaged.
That could effect the seed pods (not yet formed)and tree reproduction.
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