Crimson King Norway Maple

Acer platanoides 'Crimson King'


$276.00

One of the most cherished purple-leaf landscape trees, holding its foliage color well throughout the season; a dense shade tree best used as a prominent color accent, many consider it the ultimate feature tree for the front yard

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Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Crimson King Norway Maple is a dense deciduous tree with a more or less rounded form. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage.

Planting and Growing

and should not be planted underneath power lines. As it matures, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live to a ripe old age of 100 years or more; think of this as a heritage tree for future generations!, Crimson King Norway Maple will grow to be about 50 feet tall at maturity, the lower branches of this tree can be strategically removed to create a high enough canopy to support unobstructed human traffic underneath. It grows at a medium rate, with a spread of 40 feet. It has a high canopy with a typical clearance of 7 feet from the ground

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 50'Hx40'W

Flowers are lemon

Flowers in early spring

Fall color dark purple

Zone 4a

Likes average to moist soil