{"id":497,"date":"2010-11-18T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=497"},"modified":"2010-11-18T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T18:37:02","slug":"trident-maple-has-4-seasons-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/11\/18\/trident-maple-has-4-seasons-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Trident Maple Has 4- Seasons Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Acer-buergerianum-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-499\" title=\"Acer buergerianum (4)\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Acer-buergerianum-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Acer-buergerianum-8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-498\" title=\"Acer buergerianum (8)\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Acer-buergerianum-8-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past decade residential lot sizes have shrunken. Small\u00a0and medium sized shade trees are a better choice over large traditional choices of red and sugar maples. Trident maple (<em>Acer buergerianum<\/em>) is our best mid-sized summer shade maple in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7).<\/p>\n<p>By mid-November trident has shed its\u00a0gorgeous reddish purple autumn foliage.\u00a0 The tree&#8217;s\u00a0semi-upright framework and textural bark are wonderful winter features. The outer dark brown bark chips off, revealing the lighter colored sapwood within.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trident maple thrives under full sun in moist, well-drained soils.\u00a0It struggles in heavy clay soils. Dirr<a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-admin\/post-new.php#_edn1\">[i]<\/a> reports that\u00a0trident is tolerant of moderately alkaline pH soils. After two years planted, an established\u00a0trident tolerates summer dry spells and urban air pollutants better than most maple species. Wood strength is on par with red maple. Purchase\u00a0a well-branched central leader tree.<\/p>\n<p>This native of Japan produces very\u00a0few seedlings. The lustrous three lobed leaves appear in mid-April, followed by\u00a0numerous inconspicuous pale yellow flowers\u00a0a week or two later.\u00a0In September\u00a0smallish two-winged (samara) seeds begin to whirligig down.<\/p>\n<p>Trident maple is also an excellent choice as a street tree, particularly under power lines. Aeryn\u00ae is a leading\u00a0 cultivar which matures into a 35-40 foot high and 25-30 feet wide tree.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-admin\/post-new.php#_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> Dirr, Michael A. 2010. Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (6<sup>th<\/sup> Ed.). Stipes. Champaign, IL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade residential lot sizes have shrunken. Small\u00a0and medium sized shade trees are a better choice over large traditional choices of red and sugar maples. Trident maple (Acer buergerianum) is our best mid-sized summer shade maple in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). By mid-November trident has shed its\u00a0gorgeous reddish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[616,630,7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}