With Gratitude to the Photographers

Maple Crest Photo: Credits & Licences

The sitters are trees; the photographs, however, were taken by people, and very good ones. Every photograph on this site comes from Wikimedia Commons and is used under the licence shown below. Authorship and licence were checked against each file’s Commons record.

All photographs have been resized, re-compressed and stripped of embedded camera metadata for this site; some are shown cropped inside frames. No other alterations were made. The names, titles, dates, biographies and coats of arms attached to each tree are entirely invented and are not endorsed by the photographers.

Adaptations of works licensed under CC BY-SA are offered under the same licence as the original.

Twelve photographs, listed in order of appearance.
Used as	Original title	Author	Licence
His Grace Acer Magnificus (hero portrait)	Maple Tree in Warner Park - panoramio.jpg	Corey Coyle	CC BY 3.0
Sir Acer platanoides III	Autumn maple in Tuntorp, Lysekil 5.jpg	W.carter	CC BY-SA 4.0
The Duchess of Sweetwater	Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) - Kitchener, Ontario 02.jpg	Ryan Hodnett	CC BY-SA 4.0
The Viscount Purpuratus	20121018Acer platanoides 'Schwedleri'1.jpg	AnRo0002	CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
The Countess Rubra	Fall glory - maple tree in Prospect Park.jpg	Baseball821	CC BY-SA 4.0
The Honourable Master Acer	Maple in autumn at Tinsley Green - geograph.org.uk - 1780619.jpg	Nic Franklin-Woolley	CC BY-SA 2.0
The Dowager Pseudoplatana	Hvozdec, Mrtník, memorable tree (1) in 2016.JPG	Chmee2	CC BY 3.0
Lady Palmata of the Weeping Line	Acer palmatum 'Inaba Shidare' in autumn sunshine - 2021-10-17 - Andy Mabbett - 01.jpg	Andy Mabbett	CC BY-SA 4.0
Sir Circinatus the Errant	Autumn vine maple (665050c0aff240cdb48d27fd9ecba522).JPG	Steve Redman (MORA), U.S. National Park Service	Public domain (work of a U.S. federal agency)
The Earl Pseudoplatanus	Acer pseudoplatanus 01(js) Lodz (Poland).jpg	Jerzy Strzelecki	CC BY-SA 3.0
Heraldry Explained (samara specimen)	Maple seed pods Fcb981.JPG	Fcb981 at English Wikipedia	CC BY 2.5
“Pruned” page (fallen leaf)	Acer platanoides in Aveyron (5).jpg	Krzysztof Golik	CC BY-SA 4.0

Arms, ornaments and type

Every coat of arms, the favicon, the family tree, the dividers and the falling leaves were drawn in code especially for this site; no existing arms were copied or adapted. Any resemblance to arms borne by a real family, town or institution is accidental. Text is set in the reader’s own system serif. The site loads no external fonts, scripts or trackers.

A note on the sitters

The trees depicted have not been consulted about their titles and are not, so far as we know, members of any peerage. Their real locations are recorded on the original file pages above.