Trident Maple – Acer buergerianum
Growing to 50 feet tall and nearly as wide, Trident Maple’s rounded crown is valuable as a street tree or specimen tree in residential settings. Deemed ‘utility friendly’ because of its diminutive stature, trident maple is a popular choice for the art of bonsai and responds well to techniques that create leaf reduction and ramification, is suitable for many style and sizes of bonsai.
Bees LOVE trident maple flowers. This tree was audibly abuzz with many different types
References
1. Trident Maple at Atlanta Botanical Garden, photos by Bruce Marlin
2. Wikipedia, Acer buergerianum
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