Plant List #7: Sapindaceae Family

Question 1

What is the family name of the plants on this list?

Answer 1

Sapindaceae

Question 2

What is the binomial name of the Amur maple?

Answer 2

Acer tataricum subsp. ginnala

Question 3

How tall does the Amur maple grow?

Answer 3

Up to 20 feet wide and tall

Question 4

What are the uses for the Amur maple?

Answer 4

Specimen, group planting, hedge, and screen

Question 5

Which maple may be invasive in natural areas?

Answer 5

Amur maple

Question 6

What is the binomial name of the Crimson King maple?

Answer 6

Acer platanoides ‘Crimson King’

Question 7

What is the height and spread of the Crimson King maple?

Answer 7

50 feet tall, 35 feet wide

Question 8

Which maples are salt and pollution tolerant?

Answer 8

Norway maples: Crimson King and Columnar maple

Question 9

What is the disease that maples can be susceptible to?

Answer 9

Tar spots (fungal disease)

Question 10

Which tree on this list is overused and highly invasive near natural areas?

Answer 10

Crimson King maple

Question 11

What is the binomial name of the Columnar maple?

Answer 11

Acer platanoides ‘Columnare’

Question 12

What is the height and spread of the Columnar maple?

Answer 12

60 feet tall, 20 feet wide

Question 13

What are the uses of the Columnar maple?

Answer 13

Narrow urban spaces, screens, bonsai

Question 14

Which tree on this list has surface roots that can lift pavement or interfere with mowing?

Answer 14

Columnar maple

Question 15

What is the binomial name of Cut leaf Japanese maple?

Answer 15

Acer palmatum var dissectum

Question 16

What is the height and spread of the cut leaf Japanese maple?

Answer 16

8 feet wide and tall

Question 17

What is the use of the cut leaf Japanese maple?

Answer 17

Small tree, large shrub specimen, bonsai

Question 18

What is the binomial name of the Bloodgood Japanese maple?

Answer 18

Acer palamatum ‘Bloodgood’

Question 19

What is the height and spread of the Bloodgood Japanese maple?

Answer 19

20 feet tall and wide

Question 20

What is the use of the Bloodgood Japanese maple?

Answer 20

Specimen, accent, group, rock garden, border, bonsai

Question 21

What is the binomial name of the Striped maple?

Answer 21

Acer pensylvanicum

Question 22

What is the second common name for the Striped maple? Why?

Answer 22

Goosefoot maple because the leaves can look like goose footprints

Question 23

What is a distinguishing feature of the bark on the Goosefoot maple?

Answer 23

White stripey lines on stems/branches

Question 24

What is the height and spread of the Striped maple?

Answer 24

24 feet tall, 20 feet wide

Question 25

What are the uses of the Goosefoot maple?

Answer 25

Border shrub, understory woodland plant, naturalization, restoration

Question 26

What are the light requirements of the goosefoot maple?

Answer 26

Partial to full shade

Question 27

What is the binomial name of the Sugar maple?

Answer 27

Acer saccharum

Question 28

What is the height and spread of the Sugar maple?

Answer 28

80 feet tall, 60 feet wide

Question 29

Which tree on this list struggles with compacted and salty soil?

Answer 29

Acer saccharum

Question 30

What are the uses of the sugar maple?

Answer 30

Park, naturalized area, street trees where there is low salt and soil compaction, not urban tolerant

Question 31

Which maples on this list are native to Ontario

Answer 31

Acer saccharum Acer rubrum Acer saccharinum

Question 32

Which maple on this list has wood that is considered harder than other maples?

Answer 32

Acer saccharum

Question 33

What is the binomial name of the Silver maple?

Answer 33

Acer saccharinum

Question 34

What is the height and spread of the Silver maple?

Answer 34

100 feet tall, 40 feet wide

Question 35

What are the uses of the silver maple?

Answer 35

Naturalized wet lowlands

Question 36

Which maple on this list has particularly weak wood?

Answer 36

Acer saccharinum

Question 37

Which maple on this list can tolerant wetter conditions?

Answer 37

Silver maple (Acer saccharinum)

Question 38

Which maple on this list has a crown that is not very dense?

Answer 38

Acer saccharinum

Question 39

What is the binomial name of the Red maple?

Answer 39

Acer rubrum

Question 40

What is the height/spread of the Red maple?

Answer 40

70 feet tall, 50 feet wide

Question 41

What are the uses of the Red maple?

Answer 41

Specimen, mass planting, native tree

Question 42

What is the Freeman maple a cross between?

Answer 42

Red maple and silver maple (Acer rubrum and Acer saccharinum)

Question 43

What is the binomial name of the Freeman maple?

Answer 43

Acer x freemanii

Question 44

What is the height and spread of the Freeman maple?

Answer 44

60 feet tall, 40 feet wide

Question 45

What are the distinguishing features that the Freeman maple took from their parent plants?

Answer 45

Fall colour and wood density from the Red maple Deep lobes, water tolerant from the Silver maple

Question 46

What are the uses of the Freeman maple?

Answer 46

Street tree, shade tree, rain garden

Question 47

Which two trees on this list would do well in wet soils?

Answer 47

Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Freeman maple (Acer x freemanii)