Magnificent Magenta Maple

Abstract

This invention is of a new and unique variety of Acer rubrum, the red maple or swamp maple, which I have now named `Magnificent Magenta.` I discovered the parent tree, a member of Acer rubrum, growing at the end of a cultivated boundary line row of trees along the eastern property line of a residence in Wathena, Kans. The tree is monecious, has leaves of widely varied size and shape, a rounded crown, and an unusual and attractive fall coloration which is long lasting before leaf fall.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and unique variety of red maple, Acer rubrum, as described and illustrated, being particularly distinguished as to novelty by a combination of the shape of the tree which exhibits a desirable well-shaped, compact, symmetrical oval crown in contrast to the species which is often loosely shaped and much less compact, and a brillant, true magenta fall leaf color quite unlike that of other members of the species and any patented variety; the vivid magenta exhibited during most of the fall leaf color period dictates the name I have chosen for this tree: `Magnificent Magenta Maple.`