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Other Names:  Standfast Norway Maple

Description:

A popular choice for adding a little dynamic motion to the skyline of a landscape silhouette, this is a tall and extremely columnar tree, making quite a strong exclamation point in the landscape

Ornamental Features

Stand Fast Norway Maple is primarily valued in the landscape for its rigidly columnar form. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The twisted lobed leaves turn dark red in fall.

Landscape Attributes

Stand Fast Norway Maple is a dense deciduous tree with a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and should not require much pruning, except when necessary, such as to remove dieback. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Stand Fast Norway Maple is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Vertical Accent

Planting & Growing

Stand Fast Norway Maple will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 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. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. 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.

 

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