Species profile
Red Maple
Acer rubrum
7,687 on Toronto's streets — 1.12% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🍁 Fall colour Sep 20 – Oct 15: deep red, often earliest of the maples
Toronto history — Red maple — native, fast-growing, brilliant red fall colour. A contemporary planting favourite alongside Freeman maple.
Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp maple, water maple, or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America. The U.S. Forest Service recognizes it as the most abundant native tree in eastern North America. The red maple ranges from southeastern Manitoba around the Lake of the Woods on the border with Ontario and Minnesota, east t
Planting profile (from the City of Toronto)
| Native to | Native to Ontario |
| Mature size | Large, 15m high by 15m wide |
| Growth rate | Medium |
| Sensitivity | Very sensitive |
| Best site | Lawns |
| Plants under overhead wires | No |
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| Stonegate-Queensway | 201 |
| Leaside-Bennington | 159 |
| Banbury-Don Mills | 158 |
| The Beaches | 151 |
| Princess-Rosethorn | 146 |
| St.Andrew-Windfields | 141 |
| Islington | 131 |
| Kingsway South | 124 |
Notable specimens
- 170 cm DBH at 388 RIMILTON AVE · view →
- 160 cm DBH at 127 ARMOUR BLVD · view →
- 151 cm DBH at 48 EDENBRIDGE DR · view →
- 150 cm DBH at 31 NESBITT DR · view →
- 140 cm DBH at 94 THOMPSON AVE · view →
- 136 cm DBH at 10 MONTERREY DR · view →
- 135 cm DBH at 9 BANNON AVE · view →
- 131 cm DBH at 73 BURLINGAME RD · view →