Moon Trees Moon Seeds

The sycamore trees on campus are shedding their seeds and they look like little full moons. Moons cover the grassy plains, blown by the wind, crushed under foot. The nickname has nothing to do with the shape of the seeds, nor the trees themselves. The name comes from the Apollo 14 mission which launched in the late afternoon of January 31, 1971, with a canister of 400 seeds from various trees. The canister was taken to the moon and returned, only to be damaged during the quarantine period. The seeds, however, were planted and the trees are often named Moon Trees. Those on campus are not part of that project, but the names does lend itself to another blog entry.