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treevet · 20th December 2007, 06:01 PM

Len, I was curious as to your take on Autumn Blaze maple. A red maple, silver maple cultivar with vivid long lasting red/orange fall color that tolerates drought, clay and vert. wilt purportedly. Fourtimes the growth rate of r maple but w stronger wood and better branch structure than silver maple. It also has the pretty cut leaf maple leaf so famous in newspaper pictures above storm damage articles. The tree of the year by SMA. Sounds too good to be true. I planted one today and while naked it looks just like any silv maple. Isn t it likely to be a huge threat to the environment when it puts on 30 or 40 years?

20th December 2007, 06:01 PM	#16 (permalink)
treevet Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Posts: 794	Re: Online Seminars: American Chestnut Len, I was curious as to your take on Autumn Blaze maple. A red maple, silver maple cultivar with vivid long lasting red/orange fall color that tolerates drought, clay and vert. wilt purportedly. Fourtimes the growth rate of r maple but w stronger wood and better branch structure than silver maple. It also has the pretty cut leaf maple leaf so famous in newspaper pictures above storm damage articles. The tree of the year by SMA. Sounds too good to be true. I planted one today and while naked it looks just like any silv maple. Isn t it likely to be a huge threat to the environment when it puts on 30 or 40 years?