Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum 'Sweet Shadow '
Sapindaceae
Growth habit
Tree
Perennation
Long-lived polycarpic perennial
Location
Houston and Grossman Ponds, Cornell Class of 1938 Native Maple Slope
Source of plant
Arborvillage Farm Nursery, T.H. Belcher Nursery Inc.
Description
Vigorous growing trees with deeply cut leaves, with each lobe also cut. Leaves are medium green with yellow to orange fall color; to 45' by 35'. (DS 597) Small tree with very deeply cut leaves, the lobes, slightly overlapping each other are again incised. Slow grower. (DS 364)
USDA Hardiness Zone
3
Special characteristics
notable texture, foliage characteristics