Southern Red Maple Tree | Premium Seeds | Acer rubrum 'Summer' | Plants'®

Southern Red Maple Tree | Premium Seeds | Acer rubrum 'Summer' | LOT 2024800224 | Plants'®

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ABOUT THE SPECIES | Southern Red Maple

🌳 Transform Your Landscape with Southern Red Maple Seeds! 🌳

Are you ready to add a touch of elegance and vibrant color to your garden? The Southern Red Maple (Acer rubrum), also known as Swamp Maple, Water Maple, or Soft Maple, is the perfect choice for you. This versatile and stunning tree is native to eastern and central North America and thrives in a variety of climates and soil types.

Why Choose Southern Red Maple Seeds?

1. Breathtaking Seasonal Colors: Witness the Southern Red Maple’s foliage transform through the seasons. In summer, its leaves are a rich medium to dark green. As autumn approaches, they turn into a spectacular display of scarlet-red, orange, or yellow, creating a mesmerizing view in your garden.

2. Impressive Growth and Size: With a moderate to fast growth rate of 1.6 to 3 feet per year, the Southern Red Maple can reach heights of 90 to 135 feet and a canopy spread of 45 to 67 feet. Its rounded, oval, or pyramidal canopy shape adds a majestic presence to any landscape.

3. Adaptability and Hardiness: This adaptable tree thrives in USDA hardiness zones 9b to 6b and can grow in a wide range of soil types, from dry ridges to peat bogs. Its high pH tolerance and ability to grow in both moist and dry biomes make it one of the most versatile forest trees in North America.

4. Beautiful Blossoms and Unique Fruits: In late winter to early spring, the Southern Red Maple produces charming red or yellow flowers, followed by winged seeds known as samaras. These seeds are not only visually appealing but also a favorite among wildlife.

5. Historical and Practical Uses: The wood of the Southern Red Maple is prized for its fine, even texture and is commonly used for veneer, paper, boxes, crates, musical instruments, and more. Historically, Native Americans and pioneers utilized its bark for medicinal purposes and dye production. Plus, it can be tapped for maple syrup production!

6. Easy Cultivation: Plant your Southern Red Maple seeds in full sun and watch them flourish. This tree does exceptionally well in a variety of soil textures, moisture levels, and elevations. Whether you’re planting in a sunny slope or a swampy area, the Southern Red Maple will thrive.

Order Your Southern Red Maple Seeds Today!

Don’t miss the opportunity to add this stunning and versatile tree to your landscape. Whether you’re looking to enhance your garden’s beauty, provide shade, or create a habitat for wildlife, the Southern Red Maple is the perfect choice.

🌱 Transform your garden with the Southern Red Maple. Order your seeds now and watch nature’s beauty unfold! 🌱

LOT INFORMATION
Germination: 76%       Germination Test: Cut (Full Seed)
Purity: 96%                  Seeds/lb: 18,000
Origin: TN                   Crop Year: 2024

SPECIES DATA SHEET

- Common Names: Southern Red Maple, Swamp Maple, Water Maple, Soft Maple.
- Species: Acer rubrum.
- Genus: Acer.
- Family: Sapindaceae. 
- Order: Sapindales.
- Clade: Tracheophytes, Angiosperms, Eudicots, Rosids.
- Conservation Status: LC/G5 (IUCN 3.1).
- Natural Range & Distribution: Native to eastern and central North America.
- Preferred Climate: Temperate (Cfa, Cfb, Csa, Csb, Cfc) Cold ( Dfa, Dfb, Dsb), Subtropical (BSk, BSh).
- Hardiness Zones: 9b - 6b (USDA)
- Best Grown (US States): FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, DC, MD, DE, NJ, PA, WV, AL, TN, KY, OH, IN, IL, LA, AR, MO, TX, OK, KS, NM, AZ, UT, NV, CA, OR, WA.
- Max Height: 90 to 135ft (27 to 41m).
- Max Canopy Spread: 45ft to 67ft (13.5m to 20.5m).
- Canopy Shape: Rounded, Oval, Pyramidal.
- Leaf Description: Arranged oppositely on the twig. They are typically 5–10 cm (2–4 in) long and wide with three to five palmate lobes with a serrated margin. The sinuses are typically narrow, but the leaves can exhibit considerable variation.[6] When five lobes are present, the three at the terminal end are larger than the other two near the base. 
- Leaf Behavior: Deciduous.
- Summer Leaf Color: Medium to Dark Green.
- Fall (Autumn) Leaf Color: Most frequently Scarlet-Red, or sometimes Orange or Yellow.
- Growth Rate: Moderate-Fast (1.6 to 3ft/year | 0.5 to 0.9m/year).
- Blooming Description: The tree itself is considered polygamodioecious, meaning some individuals are male, some female, and some monoecious. They appear in late winter to early spring, from December to May. The flowers are red with 5 small petals and a 5-lobed calyx, usually at the twig tips. The staminate flowers are sessile. The pistillate flowers are borne on pedicels that grow out while the flowers are blooming, so that eventually the flowers are in a hanging cluster with stems 1 to 5 cm (1⁄2 to 2 in) long.
- Blossom Color: Red or Yellow.
- Fruit Description: The fruit is a schizocarp of 2 samaras, each one 15 to 25 mm (5⁄8 to 1 in) long.
- Seed Description: Samara, winged seed.
- Bark Color: Pale gray.
- Wood: typically measure 65-100 ft tall with a trunk diameter of 2-3 ft, has an average dried weight of 38 lbs/ft³ and specific gravity of 0.49 (basic) and 0.61 (12% MC). It has a Janka hardness of 950 lbf, a modulus of rupture of 13,400 lbf/in², an elastic modulus of 1,640,000 lbf/in², and a crushing strength of 6,540 lbf/in². The wood exhibits radial shrinkage of 4.0%, tangential shrinkage of 8.2%, and volumetric shrinkage of 12.6%, with a T/R ratio of 2.1. The sapwood, more commonly used than the heartwood, ranges from almost white to light golden or reddish brown, while the heartwood is darker reddish brown. The grain is generally straight but can be wavy, with a fine, even texture. Red maple is rated as non-durable to perishable in decay resistance, is fairly easy to work with, and has no characteristic odor. It can cause skin irritation and respiratory issues. Moderately priced, it is commonly used for veneer, paper, boxes, crates, musical instruments, and other small specialty wood items.
- Cultivation: Full sun. Does very well in a wide range of soil types, with varying textures, moisture, pH, and elevation, probably more so than any other forest tree in North America. A. rubrum's high pH tolerance means that it can grow in a variety of places. Grows in moist and dry biomes, from dry ridges and sunny, southwest-facing slopes to peat bogs and swamps.
- Traditional Uses: Acer rubrum, commonly known as red maple, is considered a “soft maple” in the lumber industry, though it is still a fairly hard wood comparable to black cherry. Its wood is close-grained but softer, less dense, and less visually appealing than sugar maple, making it more affordable and easier to machine and stain. High-grade red maple wood can substitute for hard maple in stain/paint-grade furniture and is prized for its “curly” figure by custom furniture and musical instrument makers. Red maple is also used for maple syrup production, though its tapping season is short due to early bud emergence. Historically, Native Americans and pioneers utilized red maple bark for medicinal purposes and dye production. As firewood, red maple has moderate heat energy compared to other hardwoods.
- Alergenic Potential: Yes. Through contact with the plant, syrup consumption or polen inhalation by sensitive people.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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INFORMATION SOURCES

1. Wikimedia Foundation.
2. USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture.
3. Seed Lot Germination Test carried out by our suppliers.

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