red ash mystery
Published by espringer,
Clearly, the ash tree likes to do things symmetrically. The trunk in the background shows the typical opposite-branching pattern, the leaf stems in front show the same pattern, and on each leaf, leaflets are neatly opposite… except there are two extra alternate-looking leaflets on the central leafstem that don't seem to have gotten the memo. (And there's a photo-bombing beetle I hadn't even noticed when I took the photo!)