ACER platanoides 'CRIMSON KING' (= 'GOLDSWORTH PURPLE')

Norway maple 'CRIMSON KING' (='Goldsworth Purple')

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ACER platanoides 'CRIMSON KING' (= 'GOLDSWORTH PURPLE')

Norway maple 'CRIMSON KING' (='Goldsworth Purple')

Purple leaved Norway maple, plant in full sun, can be cut back hard.
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  • Maintenance advice : Tolerates being pruned in winter, in order to reduce its size significantly if necessary. Water abundantly and regularly for the first two years.
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : Horticultural origin; breeder Tips Brothers (Belgium) 1936
  • Use group : Bäumen
  • Height at 10 years : 10 m
  • Width at 10 years : 8 m
  • Growth : Fast
  • Fragrance : No
  • Exposure : Full sun
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Deciduous
  • Shape : tree like
  • Colour of leaves : Purple
  • Colour of flowers : Yellow
  • Soil type : Garden soil
  • Uses : Free standing specimen
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Synonym: 'Schwedleri Nigrum'; 'Goldsworth Purple'. Tree forming a wide purple column with an oval crown. Beautiful yellow flowering before the leaves. Hardy and robust, resistant to pollution. Any type of soil, even chalky. Can grow to over 8 m tall with age. Seedlings of the variety 'Schwedleri' selected at Tips Brothers in Herk de stadt (Belgium) in 1937. The variety 'Faassen's Black' comes from the same seedling. Distributed by Barbier and Son nurseries in Orléans (FR) around 1946.