Maple

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Manchuria, China, and Korea

Location

Cornell Class of 1923 Flowering Tree Collection, Newman Meadow

Source of plant

Gardens North, Holden Arboretum, Botanic Garden of Smith College, Peter Podaras, Heritage Seedlings Inc.

Description

Small tree or large shrub to 8m in height, wider than tall, openly branched with gray branches striped blackish, the young shoots highly sticky, long and slender with a whitish bloom. Leaves 9-11-lobed, 10-14cm across, bases cordate, lobes lanceolate-palmate, doubly serrate, the undersides covered with white silky hairs when young, dark green above; fall color often brilliant yellow, orange and red; leaves drop very late. Flowers held in terminal corymbs appearing before the leaves, the sepals reddish-purple, the petals cream.

USDA Hardiness Zone

4