Description:

A good choice for its reliable blazing red-orange fall colour; slipper-shaped, ruby red samaras in late spring persist until fall; this is a shapely small tree that is very hardy and adaptable; great for smaller home landscapes; tolerant of alkaline soils

Ornamental Features

Ruby Slippers Amur Maple is primarily grown for its highly ornamental fruit. It features abundant showy scarlet samaras in early summer. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The lobed leaves turn outstanding shades of orange and red in the fall.

Landscape Attributes

Ruby Slippers Amur Maple is a deciduous tree with a shapely oval form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and should only be pruned in summer after the leaves have fully developed, as it may 'bleed' sap if pruned in late winter or early spring. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Ruby Slippers Amur Maple is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening

Planting & Growing

Ruby Slippers Amur Maple will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 4 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 60 years or more.

This tree does best in full sun to partial shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and should do just fine under average home landscape conditions. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.