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Plant: Autumn Blaze - Maple Tree
Maple Tree · Acer × freemanii 'Jeffersred'
Size: 7 gal
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More about this plant
A vigorous Freeman maple, a hybrid of red maple and silver maple, forming a dense, erect, oval crown of 45 to 70 feet tall and 35 to 50 feet wide. The deeply cut five lobed leaves turn a good orange red in fall, and dense red flower clusters open at the branch ends in April before the foliage. It takes full sun to partial shade in clay, loam or sand, tolerates both drought and wet soil, and has no serious problems, although leafhoppers, borers and scale can affect immature trees. Its speed and clean habit make it a standard shade and street tree.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 70 ft tall and 50 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 3a-8b
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A vigorous Freeman maple, a hybrid of red maple and silver maple, forming a dense, erect, oval crown of 45 to 70 feet tall and 35 to 50 feet wide. The deeply cut five lobed leaves turn a good orange red in fall, and dense red flower clusters open at the branch ends in April before the foliage. It takes full sun to partial shade in clay, loam or sand, tolerates both drought and wet soil, and has no serious problems, although leafhoppers, borers and scale can affect immature trees. Its speed and clean habit make it a standard shade and street tree.
- Flowers
- Red flowers in short drooping clusters open in spring before the leaves.
- Foliage
- Deeply cut five lobed palmatifid leaves three to six inches across, green in season and turning orange to red burgundy in fall.
- Fruit
- V-shaped paired winged samaras about 3/4 inch long, red, pink or yellow, turning tan or brown when mature.
- Bark & stems
- Young bark is smooth and light gray; older trunks develop thick, dark gray, plate-like scales separated by vertical ridges.
- Native range
- Hybrid of Acer rubrum and Acer saccharinum
