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Acer cappadocicum
Also called Caucasian Maple, Coliseum Maple
Cappadocian maple is a medium-sized deciduous tree, 20 to 30 m tall, native from Turkey east through the Caucasus and Himalayas to southwest China, grown in Europe as an ornamental. It needs room for its broad crown and is best suited to temperate gardens.
Acer cappadocicum, the Cappadocian maple, is a maple native to Asia, from central Turkey (ancient Cappadocia) east along the Caucasus, the Himalayas, to southwestern China.
Cappadocian maple is grown as an ornamental tree in Europe. Many of the trees in cultivation show a strong tendency to produce numerous root sprouts, a character rare in maples. The hybrid maple Acer × zoeschense shares this character and probably has Acer cappadocicum as one of its parents.
The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:-
Field Maple · Kyushu Maple · Vine maple · Père David's maple · Horned maple · Acer tataricum subsp. ginnala · Paperbark maple · Fullmoon Maple · Lobel's Maple · Bigleaf Maple · Montpellier Maple · Manitoba Maple
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acer cappadocicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
