| Scientific Name: | Acer platanoides 'Princeton Gold' |
| Common Name: | Princeton Gold Norway maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Round |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves bight golden yellow in spring, opposite, palmate with 5 pointed lobes (reminiscent of the Canadian flag leaf except with more elongated and pointy teeth); blades reniform-orbicular, most 7-10cm long x 9-12cm wide, petioles 7-13cm 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. | |