The Autumn Blaze maple is a cross between a Red Maple and a Silver Maple. Unfortunately, both parent trees have problems in our area. One characteristic is that the immature bark is very thin.

Like its silver maple parent, which is native in North Dakota and Minnesota, Autumn Blaze grows quickly, eventually becoming a large shade tree 40 to 50 feet high and wide, where adapted.

Autumn Blaze Maples are hybrids between silver maple and red maple, which explains their bright fall color and their appeal. However, their parentage makes them less adapted to the alkaline soils ...

This maple is a hybrid of silver (Acer saccharinum) and red (Acer rubrum) maples. While it will have brilliant orange-red fall color, the leaves shouldn’t be yellowing in August. The “Autumn Blaze” is ...

The maple beat out oak, pine and elm trees. In 1948, that selection was narrowed by another vote to sugar maple specifically. In 1893, a favorite tree was selected by a group of Wisconsin school ...