Plant: Brandywine - Maple Tree
Maple Tree · Acer rubrum 'Brandywine'
Size: 7 gal
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More about this plant
A seedless male red maple selection with a symmetrically oval crown, reaching 35 to 50 feet tall and 25 to 40 feet wide. Its fall colour begins red and turns purple red, and it holds that colour longer than most red maples. Small red flowers open in short drooping clusters in late winter before the leaves and give bees an early nectar source. It grows fast in full sun to partial shade in moist, slightly acidic, fertile soil, tolerates compaction, drought, heat, pollution and wet soil, and makes a reliable shade or street tree.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 50 ft tall and 40 ft wide
- Blooms in winter, spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 2a-9b
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A seedless male red maple selection with a symmetrically oval crown, reaching 35 to 50 feet tall and 25 to 40 feet wide. Its fall colour begins red and turns purple red, and it holds that colour longer than most red maples. Small red flowers open in short drooping clusters in late winter before the leaves and give bees an early nectar source. It grows fast in full sun to partial shade in moist, slightly acidic, fertile soil, tolerates compaction, drought, heat, pollution and wet soil, and makes a reliable shade or street tree.
- Foliage
- Simple, opposite, palmately veined leaves with three to five triangular lobes and coarsely toothed margins, turning red then purple red in fall.
- Native range
- Newfoundland to Florida, west to Minnesota, Oklahoma and Texas
