Acer State Street®

From the Chicagoland Grows® Collection, we bring you a uniformly branched, deciduous shade tree with ascending branches and a uniform upright oval habit, maturing to a more rounded upright habit with age. Found in the collections of The Morton Arboretum, the satin-surfaced, lobed leaves are a medium to dark green and are tatter resistant in high winds due to its heavy leaf substance. The leaves change quickly in fall to a pale golden hue similar to that of Ginkgo. This is a uniformly growing tree, making it an excellent shade tree. As the tree matures, the corky gray-and-tan bark becomes more ridged and fissured, adding to its display value. State Street™ has exceptional tolerance to urban pollution, heat, cold, and acidic or alkaline soil, and is drought tolerant once established. Easy to transplant and grow, and long-lived, it rarely needs corrective pruning thanks to its uniform growth habit. ts excellent ornamental attributes, site adaptability, and stress tolerance provides for a broad range of landscape applications in commercial, residential, and urban sites alike. Use it as a medium-to-large street tree, and in parks and residential yards as a shade tree. State Street™ is a more cold-hardy alternative to hedge maple (Acer campestre) in northern growing conditions, and is a noninvasive, and more heat- and drought-resistant alternative to Norway maple (A. platanoides). Consider it as a replacement tree for native ash trees (Fraxinus spp.) in areas infested with emerald ash borer. It can also be used as a stronger-wooded substitute for silver maple (A. saccharinum), and as a red maple (A. rubrum) and sugar maple (A. saccharum) substitute in areas where alkaline soils can induce problems with chlorosis. Awards: 2011 recipient of the Woody Ornamental Plant of the Year award, Wisconsin Nursery Association, and 2011 recipient of the Plant of Merit® (Missouri Botanical Garden) designation as an outstanding plant for the lower Midwest.

Selected from the collections of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. The parent tree was accessioned and planted in 1929. This is a little-known species from Hokkaido in northern Japan.

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