Acer platanoides 'Princeton Gold'
Plane Maple 'Princeton Gold'
Fiche botanique
Sapindaceae
Rounded
Leafy
Description
Acer platanoides 'Princeton Gold' is an ornamental maple prized for its luminous golden foliage that instantly brightens gardens, offering a striking contrast to surrounding plantings. This cultivar of Acer platanoides, with its spreading and balanced habit, combines beauty and hardiness, making it ideal as a specimen tree, in a free-growing hedge, or planted in a row to structure a landscape design. Its bright yellow foliage in spring subtly evolves in summer to rich golden hues, creating a permanent focal point in the garden. Undemanding once established, it adapts to a wide range of well-drained soils and tolerates full sun to partial shade, while also thriving in urban conditions. Its ornamental appeal continues into autumn when warm shades complete the seasonal palette. 'Princeton Gold' enhances both contemporary and classic compositions with its color and elegant silhouette, while also providing shade and structure to large green spaces.