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Plant: Burgundy Belle - Maple Tree
Maple Tree · Acer rubrum 'Magnificent Magenta'
Size: 7 gal
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More about this plant
A red maple selection with a compact, uniformly rounded habit and a high canopy, growing to about 50 feet tall and 45 feet wide at a medium rate. Showy clusters of red flowers line the branches in early spring before the leaves, the foliage emerges red and matures green, and fall colour is an outstanding wine burgundy. It is adaptable, prefers average to wet conditions and even tolerates standing water, but strongly prefers acidic soil and yellows in alkaline ground. A low maintenance accent and shade tree for full sun to part shade.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 50 ft tall and 45 ft wide
- Blooms in winter, spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A red maple selection with a compact, uniformly rounded habit and a high canopy, growing to about 50 feet tall and 45 feet wide at a medium rate. Showy clusters of red flowers line the branches in early spring before the leaves, the foliage emerges red and matures green, and fall colour is an outstanding wine burgundy. It is adaptable, prefers average to wet conditions and even tolerates standing water, but strongly prefers acidic soil and yellows in alkaline ground. A low maintenance accent and shade tree for full sun to part shade.
- Flowers
- Red flowers in short drooping clusters open in spring before the leaves.
- Foliage
- Lobed leaves emerge red in spring, mature green, and turn an outstanding burgundy in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Young bark is smooth and light gray; older trunks develop thick, dark gray, plate-like scales separated by vertical ridges.
- Native range
- Newfoundland to Florida, west to Minnesota, Oklahoma and Texas
