Red Swamp Maple - Acer rubrum - Exotic Bonsai Tree - 5 Seeds Rocket

Red Swamp Maple - Acer rubrum - Exotic Bonsai Tree - 5 Seeds RocketRed maple is a beautiful deciduous tree, which will typically grow 40 to 70 feet with a rounded to oval crown. This handsome shade tree displays red colouring during different seasons of the year. It has the distinction of having the greatest north to south distribution of all trees on the east coast. Pioneers once made ink and and black dyes from an extract of the bark. Red maple is prized as an ornamental shade tree because of its rapid growth,

The flowers have nectaries

flowers in Spring

The flowers are monoecious (individual flowers are either male or female

appear in the cleft

The flowers are individually inconspicuous

which is somewhat similar in size and shape to the Chiltepin

Its flavour is mild to moderately hot (0500 Scoville units)

heads of pure white flowers in Summer-Autumn

this makes a lovely pot plant

(F1) Plant produces good yields of shiny black ornamental hot peppers

With 2 narrow linear long leaves this summer growing plant is best sown in spring

It is a relatively common garden or pot plant