| Scientific Name: | Acer tataricum ssp. ginnala |
| Common Name: | Amur maple, Tatarian maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 4 - 5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Fall interest, Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Ovate, Dentate, Pinnately lobed, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Green-yellow, May |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Pink, Red, Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, glossy, pinnate venation (rare for maples), most with 3 or 5 lobes with teeth lobes variable but largest two are towards the base), ovate 5-8cm long x 3-5cm wide; flowers in corymb-like cymes, rounded, greenish-yellow to cream, about 4mm wide; schizocarps 2-3cm wide, thick margin of wings at 20-50 degree angle, samaras 2-2.5cm long. Winter ID: twigs rounded brown with prominent lenticels; no terminal bud, axillary buds opposite, 2-3mm long at twig ends to just 0.5mm long further back, red. | |