20 Things You Didn't Know About The Ring
13. The Significance Of The Red Tree
The red tree features heavily in The Ring, thematically and actually. Although the actual tree used was fake, constructed from metallic pipes with red silk for standing in for the leaves, the inspiration is entirely genuine.
It first makes an appearance at Shelter Mountain and the location of the cabin in which Rachel encounters the video for the first time, it also shows up in the videotape itself. When Noah and Rachel reveal the image of the tree burnt into Samara's prison barn wall, it leads them back to the cabin and the location of Samara's body.
Firstly, this is a Japanese Maple, no prizes for guessing the link there. Secondly, the fruit of the maple are known simply as... Samaras. Someone did their homework here.