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 trucate-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>), petoles mostly 8-16cm long. Winter ID: lateral buds opposite, 2-3mm long, two outer red scales.