| Scientific Name: | Acer buergerianum |
| Common Name: | trident maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Small garden/space, Specimen plant, Street (boulevard tree) |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Obovate, Crenate, Entire, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Yellow, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Red, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, most with 3 triangular-shaped forward pointing lobes, blades obovate, 7-11cm long x 8-10cm wide, bases rounded, margins entire or crenate, petioles 4-9cm long; schizocarps 1-2cm wide, thick edge of wings at 10 degrees to partially overlapping each other, each samara 2-3cm long. Winter ID: lateral buds about 5mm long with over 10 spirally arranged scales with grey hairs, leaf scar 3-lobed to crescent shaped. | |