Tatarian Maple 15 fresh seeds, Tatar Maple, Tartar Maple (ACER tataricum)

🌱 Acer tataricum — Tatarian Maple, Black Maple, Neklen

Tatarian maple seeds for sale, a small tree or shrub with several stems reaching 2-12 m high. This deciduous plant is valued for its ornamental value, tolerance to urban conditions, and ability to improve soil quality.

🌿 Botanical Description

The bark is thin, pale gray-brown, smooth with dark grooves, and becomes covered with cracks with age. The branches are thin, angular, smooth or slightly pubescent, red-brown, with prominent leaf scars and short, wide, dark red-brown buds. The leaves are simple, opposite, with serrate or biserrate edges, usually entire or with 2-5 lobes, broadly oval or deltoid, 5-11 cm long, half as wide in width, green above, paler below, pubescent along the veins. In autumn the leaves turn bright red and then fall off. Leaf petioles are 2-5 cm long, thin, often with a slight shade of pink. The flowers are white-green with a slight shade of red, 5-8 mm in diameter, fragrant, on long stalks, collected in a thick corymbose panicle, appearing immediately after the leaves in spring.

🌾 Growing & Agrotechnics

• Sow seeds 1-2 cm deep in the spring or fall, stratify for 30-60 days if necessary.
• Germination temperature: 15-20°C, germination time: 1-3 weeks.
• Soil type: well-drained, slightly acidic to neutral soils.
• Watering and fertilization: moderate, avoid waterlogged soils.
• USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 (-40°C to -34°C), tolerates some frost.

🗺️ Natural Growing Areas

Native to Central Asia, this plant thrives in temperate climates with moderate temperatures and rainfall. It can be found in mountainous regions, steppes, and forests at elevations up to 1,500 m.

✨ Interesting Facts

Tatarian maple is a valuable breed for its ornamental value and ability to improve soil quality. It provides nectar and pollen to honey bees and is resistant to urban conditions, including gas and smoke. This plant is undemanding to soil and can tolerate some soil salinity, but does not thrive in waterlogged or alkaline soils.

🌸 Uses

Used in single and group plantings, hedges, and as undergrowth. Improves soil for larches, pines, birches, oaks, linden, small-leaved elm.