This thread is why acorns should be called oak nuts
This thread has evolved into one about linguistics, so I opt for them to be called eggcorns.
Canadian here. Yea bud you triggered me there eh. That’s fer sure a maple. I just helped my buddy tap a few maple trees couple weeks back.
Trees are great!
I, too, always have difficulties calling these thingies flowers! Blossom is actually the prefered term for trees I believe? Some of them just don’t look flowery at all.
What caused the rapid fall? Wind?
What caused the rapid fall? Wind?
We had a weather change from very warm and sunny to colder and rainy over night.
That might have played a role here.
When a tree sneezes!
That’s tree jizz
When a tree sneezes real good
I upvoted for the false friend explanation. Thank you for tickling my language nerd gland in such a pleasing way.
l guess I managed to pack two mildly interesting topics into one post by accident. :-)
Do you have a neighbor named Aureliano? If so, check on his family
Not that I know of…
Why?
Is this some kind of insider reference or should l go and have a look at the door bell nameplates of the neighbouring buildings for some reason?
It’s a reference to “100 Years of Solitude”. >!When the patriarch Aureliano Buendía dies, yellow flowers rain all over the streets of his town!<
Acorn tree.
And those ‘blossom-thingies’ are called … flowers.
Does the term “flower” apply to trees, though?
Besides, the dropped stuff seemed only to be a part of the blossoms that I didn’t knew the name for.
Rest of the blossom constructs stayed on the tree.Does the term “flower” apply to trees, though?
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_plant
Besides, the dropped stuff seemed only to be a part of the blossoms that I didn’t knew the name for.
Flower petals.
Thanks!
So, TIL that the English term “flower” is used in a much broader sense than its supposed direct German translation “Blume”.
Nobody in Germany would say a tree has flowers (Blumen), but that it has blossoms (Blüten).
And “Flowering Plants” are also named “Blütenpflanzen” (“Blossom Plants”).So saying “tree flowers” sounds really, really odd to me.
Like someone calling a jumping frog “a flying frog”.So thanks for the explanation, would never have guessed that by myself but will now use it in all my future tree-related discussions! :-)
“Blossom” essentially means “flower”. It’s just not used as often. At least not in American English.
In English, in my opinion at least, “flower” describes the inflorescence at any point in its growth cycle, while “blossom” describes the flower at its fullest development. More often though, “blossom” is used as a verb meaning to bloom or to develop.
I usually say ‘blossoms’ for trees though it can sometimes imply blossoming IE new flowers in English
But your username also gives me slight vibes you might have some affiliation with the German language… ;-)
Maple trees do not produce flowers, but many other types of trees do.
Maple trees are angiosperms and definitely produce flowers. They may not be showy, but they’re there
Maple trees do not produce flowers
But according to Wikipedia, they do?
Damn!
Classical “false friend” type error.
The tree is named “Ahorn” in my mother tongue (German). 😆
