| Scientific Name: | Acer negundo |
| Common Name: | Manitoba maple, box elder |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Street (boulevard tree) |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Obovate, Dentate, Entire, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Green-yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, compound, odd-pinnate with 3(-5) leaflets obovate-elliptic, 12cm long x 6cm wide, margins toothed or lobed; female flowers in pendant clusters, dioecious, greenish-yellow, male flowers with dark red anthers; schizocarps 2-4cm wide, thick edge of wings at wings at 20-60 degree angle, samaras 2.5-3.5cm long, thin-winged. Winter ID: buds green, pubescent, 1-3mm long; persistent fruit. | |