| Scientific Name: | Acer platanoides 'Crimson King' |
| Common Name: | Crimson King Norway maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Street (boulevard tree) |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Dentate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Corymb, Yellow, Red, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Dark-red, May-Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves dark red to nearly black, opposite, palmate with 5 long-pointed lobes (reminiscent of the Canadian flag leaf except with more elongated and pointy teeth), blades reniform-orbicular, most 2-16cm long x 11-18cm wide, petioles 15-20cm long, broken leaf veins or petiole ooze milky sap; schizocarps 7-9cm wide, thick edge of wings at wings at 110-130 degree angle (widely divergent wings - unlike sycamore maple), samaras 4-5cm long, seeds flattened, ~1cm wide. Winter ID: buds opposite, 2-3mm long, terminal buds 5-6mm long, plump green to burgundy; leaf scars 3-lobed with 3 widely spaced leaf scars; fruit may be present. | |