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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">Eastern redbuds are iconic spring bloomers, but mystery remains about
the timing of their </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">flowering</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 11pt;">1. Does the timing of redbud flowering vary by location or elevation?</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 11pt;">2. Is there a cycle to abundant years of redbud fruiting?</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 11pt;">3. Are redbuds flowering and fruiting earlier in the year?
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 11pt;">By signing up as a Nature's Notebook observer and tracking the seasonal activity of an eastern redbud tree where you live, you
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 11pt;">Want to find out what's involved? Watch a recording of our virtual info session and training where we explain the significance
of this project, walk you through the steps of creating a Nature's Notebook account and registering a redbud tree, and describe how to make observations and submit them online.
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 11pt;">Questions? Contact Erin Posthumus, USA National Phenology Network, at
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or Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay, National Museum of Natural History, at </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">blayj@si.edu</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
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