Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees
Trident maple (Acer buergeranum)
Small trees
- Maximum height
30 feet - Relative growth rate
Good - Freedom from insect pests
Good - Freedom from disease problems
Good - Resistance to storm damage
Good - Will grow on poorly drained soil
Poor - Will grow in hot, dry areas
Excellent - Easy to transplant
Excellent - Withstands city conditions
Good
Trident maple is a small, round-headed tree with attractive, exfoliating bark. New leaves are often bronze to purple, changing to glossy green in summer and finally orange and red in the fall. It transplants readily and tolerates drought well.
Contents
- How to choose trees
- American sycamore or plane tree (Platanus occidentalis)
- Amur maple (Acer ginnala)
- Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)
- Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica)
- Bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa)
- English oak (Quercus robur)
- Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
- Golden-rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata)
- Green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
- Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis)
- Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
- Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)
- Linden (Tilia spp.)
- Norway maple (Acer platanoides)
- Pin oak (Quercus palustris)
- Red maple (Acer rubrum)
- Red oak (Quercus borealis)
- Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea)
- River birch (Betula nigra)
- Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila)
- Silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
- Sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
- Swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor)
- Sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
- Trident maple (Acer buergeranum)
- Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- White ash (Fraxinus americana)
- White oak (Quercus alba)
- Yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea)
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