| Scientific Name: | Acer x freemanii |
| Common Name: | Freeman maple, columnar red maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 4 - 5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Street (boulevard tree) |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Orbicular, Dentate, Double serrate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Umbel, Pink, Red, Apr |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Red, Brown, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, orbicular, most 9-13cm wide, base truncate-hastate, coarsely toothed, pale underneath, 3-5 palmate lobes (sinuses are deeper than <a href ='https://www.google.com/search?q=Acer+rubrum+leaves' target='_blank'>red maple</a> but not as deep as <a href ='https://www.google.com/search?q=Acer+saccharinum+leaves' target='_blank'>silver maple</a>), petioles mostly 8-16cm long. Winter ID: lateral buds opposite, 2-3mm long, two outer red scales. | |