Maple Tree

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 392.8 Hz, 4 cents sharp of G4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

Tap it to send a gust through. Hands-on: shake the trunk and the leaves spin down.

The maple is a tree known for its leaves with pointed lobes, which turn fiery red, orange and gold in autumn. Leaves are green in summer because of chlorophyll, the stuff that catches sunlight; in autumn the tree stops making it, so yellow and orange pigments show through, and many maples also make new red ones. Its seeds have wings and spin down like little helicopters.

Tap it and a whirling gust tears leaves off and carries them around the tree in a widening spiral before they settle in a ring on the grass; then fresh leaves open. Maple syrup is made by boiling down maple sap: about 40 liters of sap make 1 liter of syrup. With ✋ Hands-on on, shake the trunk and the leaves spin down like real maple leaves.

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

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