Species profile
Black Maple
Acer nigrum
2,572 on Toronto's streets — 0.37% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🍁 Fall colour Sep 25 – Oct 20: yellow to orange, sugar-maple cousin
Acer nigrum, the black maple, is a species of maple closely related to A. saccharum, and treated by some authors as a subspecies of it, as Acer saccharum subsp. nigrum.
Planting profile (from the City of Toronto)
| Native to | Native to Ontario |
| Mature size | Large, 20m high by 12m wide |
| Growth rate | Medium |
| Sensitivity | Hardy |
| Best site | Lawns and boulevards |
| Plants under overhead wires | No |
Where they cluster
Notable specimens
- 97 cm DBH at 16 FOREST PATH CRT · view →
- 95 cm DBH at 198 HEWARD AVE · view →
- 85 cm DBH at 6 TOPHAM RD · view →
- 75 cm DBH at 34 GLENBRAE AVE · view →
- 70 cm DBH at 264 WRIGHT AVE TORONTO · view →
- 69 cm DBH at 263 SNOWDON AVE · view →
- 68 cm DBH at 33 RICHBOURNE CRT · view →
- 67 cm DBH at 850 COXWELL AVE · view →