Red Maple Tree (Acer rubrum / Liquidambar)

The Red Maple (Acer rubrum) is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful deciduous trees for seasonal foliage colour. In the cooler Kenyan highlands, it can produce its signature spectacular display of intensely vivid crimson, orange, and gold autumn leaf colour before shedding — a rare and exotic sight in East Africa that immediately creates a premium, temperate-garden atmosphere. It is a medium-to-large tree with attractive, lobed maple leaves and provides excellent dappled shade in summer. A highly desirable, prestigious collector’s tree for serious gardeners and premium highland estate landscaping.