What is it Wednesday: April 14, 2021

Can you identify what's in this photo?

 

 

Each Wednesday morning 

on Camp Lutherlyn's Facebook page

 the Lutherlyn Environmental Education Program posts a photo. 

 

 

Readers have all morning and afternoon 

to make their best guess about what the photo is. 

 

Around 6 pm LEEP provides the answer and a brief explanation.

 

 

Each week's What is it Wednesday post 

will also be posted on the Nature of Lutherlyn blog, 

 after it is posted on Facebook,

sometimes with additional bonus information. 

 

In addition to bringing you current editions of What is it Wednesday 

on the Nature of Lutherlyn blog, 

we will be reposting old editions,

creating a What is it Wednesday archive. 

 

This photo was posted as a What is it Wednesday on

April 14, 2021. 

 

 

 

And the answer is....

These are flowers of the serviceberry tree. 

Serviceberry is a small tree native to Pennsylvania forests. It gets pretty white flowers in the spring, sweet red edible berries in early summer, and its leaves turn a colorful yellow-orange in the fall.

This time of year there are many colorful flowering trees to catch the eye! In addition to serviceberry, redbud, dogwood, and various types of cherries are exceptionally pretty flowering trees that are native to Pennsylvania. (All trees flower in one way or another, but not all of them have showy or attractive flowers.) Choosing native trees and other plants in landscaping helps support local ecosystems by providing food for pollinators and preventing invasive species from spreading.

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