Acer rubrum 'Red Sunset' - Red Maple

(Red Maple) A medium-sized, deciduous tree that is native to Eastern North America from Quebec to Minnesota south to Florida and eastern Texas. It typically grows with a rounded to oval crown. It grows faster than Norway and sugar maples, but slower than silver maple. In northern states, red maple usually occurs in wet bottomland, river flood plains and wet woods. Emerging new growth leaves, leafstalks, twigs, flowers, fruit and fall color are red or tinged with red. A source of food for birds. 'Red Sunset' is one of the best red maple cultivars available with outstanding orange to red fall color. 40-60'. Z5.