Tree Categories: Fall Color Trees, Maple Trees, and Ornamental Trees
Mature Tree Height: Less than 20 feet tall | Mature Tree Width: Less than 10 feet wide
Tree Growing Zones: Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, and Zone 8
The Carnival Hedge Maple is a smaller, more boisterous variety of Hedge Maple. Found as a seedling by A. van Nijnatten and introduced in the Netherlands in 1989, its 5-lobed leaves emerge as a creamy-pink color with a white border in the spring. As the leaves mature the creamy-pink turns green but the white border remains until the leaves drop. The Carnival Hedge Maple is a slow-growing tree that thrives in partial sun as the leaves can become scorched with too much sun exposure (avoid afternoon sun). It is adaptable to most soils with a preference towards alkaline soils. Foliage does not change color significantly in the fall but retains its variegated leaf pattern until the winter.
