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The Crimson King Maple is a cultivar of the Norway Maple.
Characteristics are the same as Norway Maple, except leaves and fruit are crimson purple instead of green.
`Crimson King' has purple leaves that retain their color all summer.
Family: Aceraceae
Native or Introduced to Illinois: introduced
Leaf: `Crimson King' has purple leaves that retain their color all summer. The leaves are opposite, simple, and palmately-veined, 5 to 7 lobed with long pointed "teeth", exudes milky white sap from the petiole when detached, dark crimson purple, paler below.Flower: Appear in early spring, before leaves; yellow-green in color, with male and female usually on different trees.
Fruit: Widely divergent 2-winged samaras, 1 1/2 to 2 inches long in clusters, relatively flat seed cavity, mature in summer. Crimson purple in color.
Twig: Stout, with a large, turban-shaped, green to purple (fall and winter) terminal bud.
Bark: Gray to brown, corky, on older trees shallowly furrowed with long narrow, somewhat interlacing ridges.
Size/Form/Shape: Medium-sized tree, usually with a dense rounded crown.
Other: Widely used for its very dense foliage and rich maroon leaf color throughout the growing season, reaches 40 to 50 feet.
Sources for the Sullivan Middle School Tree Identification Guide were obtained though the use of the following sites:
- Illinois Plant Information Network (ILPIN) @ http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/ilpin/ilpin.html#Background
- List of Woody Plants Native or Naturalized in Illinois @ http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/woody.html
- Tree Species @ http://ostermiller.org/tree/species.html
- Index to Eastern/Central Trees @ http://www.arborday.org/trees/ECtreelist.html
- ISU Forestry Extension Identification of Common Trees of Iowa @ http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/tree/
- Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees @ http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/forsite/key/intro.htm
- List of Native Trees for Use Along Roadsides in Illinois @ http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/treetable.html
- The PLANTS Database @ http://plants.usda.gov/