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.