Type: tree
Family: Sapindaceae
Zone: 3 to 8 Find Your Zone
Height: 40 to 55 feet
Width: 30 to 40 feet
Bloom Time: rarely blooms
Sun exposure: full sun to partial shade
Fall Color: Red to red-orange
Soil: well drained, very adaptable, moist, acidic
Leaves: deciduous
Fertilizer: Vigoro Tree, Shrub and Evergreen or Miracle Gro Evergreen Tree Spikes
This tree has the best of both worlds, as it is a cross between the sturdy, attractive red maple and the adaptable, fast growing silver maple. This tree is a very fast growing tree that has great disease resistance and brilliant fall color. This tree is held in high regard in commercial complexes for not littering parking lots with winged seed heads. This cross breeding occurs in a controlled environment at the nursery but also in the wild, when silver maples pollen fertilizes a red maple.
PLANTING GUIDE
STEP 1: Digging the hole
STEP 2: Putting plant in hole
STEP 3: Amending the soil and filling in the hole
STEP 4: Mulching and fertilizing
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