Vine Maple

The boughs of the vine-maple, together with other slender shrubs constituting the underbrush, had been rudely woven together, forming, at best, but a very inefficient shelter from the wind, which swept in freezing currents through the valley. ❋ William Worthington Fowler (N/A)

Off the path, the underbrush was almost impassable; the vine-maple, with crooked stems and tangled branches, with coarse briers and vines, knit every thing together. ❋ Caroline C. Leighton (N/A)

Summer was upon the land, early summer, with the sweet winds stirring upon the waters, with gauze-winged creatures flitting above the, shallows where willow and vine-maple fringed the edges and silver fish leaped to their undoing, with fleecy clouds floating in a sapphire sky, and birds straining their little throats in the forest. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Where the vine-maple fringed the deep forest with flame. ❋ John Douglas Sutherland Campbell (1879)

"In a forest like this," he says, leaning close to my ear, "a drop of rain may hit 20 times before it reaches the ground, and each impact-against a cedar bough, a vine-maple leaf, a snag-makes its own sound." ❋ Unknown (2009)