Acer rubrum red maple

Acer rubrum in front of the Law School. Sairus Patel, 13 Nov 2019

Acer rubrum leaf and samara. From: Howard E. McMinn & Evelyn Maino, An Illustrated Manual of Pacific Coast Trees

See eighteen red maples, planted in 2017, in front of the Law School. Six specimens of ‘Armstrong’, a broadly columnar female cultivar of Acer × freemanii (a hybrid of red maple and silver maple), grow near the entrance to the Beckman Center, three on each side. Three younger Freeman maples, ‘Armstrong’ or similar, were planted across from them in 2015.

A 40-foot red maple is at 474 Churchill Avenue, Palo Alto.

Name derivation: Acer – Latin for maple; rubrum – red (autumn color).