Silver Maple

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Location

Houston and Grossman Ponds

Source of plant

Arborvillage Farm Nursery

Description

Name first published by Van Gelderin in 1992. The type tree is in Boskoop, the Netherlands. A graceful tree of slightly weeping habit. The leaves are deeply cut but shaped differently than those of 'Wieri Laciniatum. It was discovered in 1948 in the nurseries of Georg Born in Rosenheim, Germany, as a chance seedling. Rudolf Schmidt in Rellingen, Germany started to propagate it. G. Krussmann published the name 'Born's Graciosa' in 1959, but this name was rejected by the registrar (Arnold Arboretum).

USDA Hardiness Zone

3

Special characteristics

foliage characteristics