This colourful, smaller form of box elder maple, will grow in drier climates and poorer soils than most other maples.

The advantages of this cultivar are:

• is a sterile male form so doesn't have the copious seed fall that the species produces
• excellent leaf colour in season and in autumn
• the small leaves shrivel to nothing once they fall
• grow to only about 7-9m so can fit in small gardens
• tolerates wet and dry soils
• a good shade tree
• a great choice for group plantings or avenues