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Other Names:  Cross Shantung x Norway Maple

Description:

A stunning, versatile variety, ideal for small home landscapes with a beautifully rounded compact shape; brilliant red-orange fall color; an excellent street tree

Ornamental Features

Maple, (Truncatum) Main Street is smothered in stunning corymbs of chartreuse flowers hanging below the branches in mid spring before the leaves. It has green deciduous foliage. The lobed leaves turn outstanding shades of orange and in the fall.

Landscape Attributes

Maple, (Truncatum) Main Street is a dense deciduous tree with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Maple, (Truncatum) Main Street is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Shade

Planting & Growing

Maple, (Truncatum) Main Street will grow to be about 30 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 20 feet. It has a high canopy with a typical clearance of 6 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. As it matures, the lower branches of this tree can be strategically removed to create a high enough canopy to support unobstructed human traffic underneath. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 70 years or more.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. This plant should be periodically fertilized throughout the active growing season with a specially-formulated acidic fertilizer. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in clay soils. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.