Southern Sugar Maple, Florida Maple

The only one I definitely know of in real life is the one at Hilltop Arboretum in Baton Rouge. It's wide and casts tons of shade onto th...Read Moree benches where plants are grown and sold at their plant sales. (In fact, I'd always been so busy looking at the plants on the benches that I assumed the shade was coming from a live oak, until I actually stood back and looked at the tree finally.) I would love to plant one in my yard, though I don't really have room. Its slow growth rate, small leaves, and low overall height make it a good candidate for planting here in the hurricane zone. The specimen I mentioned is growing amid partial shade from surrounding pine trees. And it's at the top of a hill, as you might've guessed by the name of the place, hence the roots don't get soggy. Not sure if that is a good or a bad thing for this particular species.

Found a 24-inch volunteer sticking out of some Indian hawthorne, probably the gift of a bird. Will try to transplant it to a sunny area a...Read Moret the end of an ornamental dry streambed. There's a large Muskogee crape myrtle at the other end. Hope to post a positive follow-up report with photo next autumn.

They are happier with alot of water. Mine is doing well in my regular Florida sand. Last year we had a spring drought and lost all the le...Read Moreaves, turned bright yellow as if it was winter coming. When the rains came it grew new leaves and I decided to amend the soil in case that happens again. One planted in the shade of a pine tree gets red/ orange fall colors. One planted in full sun gets bright yellow colors.

Acer barbatum is Native to Texas and other States.