Acer negundo, also known as the box elder, boxelder maple, Manitoba maple or ash-leaved maple, is a species of maple native to North America from Canada to Honduras. [3] It is a fast-growing, short-lived tree with opposite, ash-like compound leaves.

Common Names: Arizona boxelder maple, Arizona boxelder, box elder Botanical Description: Acer negundo var. arizonicum is a fast growing, deciduous tree with a spreading, bushy crown, typically reaching 4-12 meters in height, sometimes up to 20 meters, rarely a small shrub (1,2,3).

Box Elder is a maple, very closely related to Sugar Maple of northeastern North America and the Big-tooth Maple, native to the Southwest. Box Elder is typically a higher elevation riparian tree, especially common in the canyons draining the Mogollon Rim. The bark is light gray-brown, almost tan and shallowly furrowed. Female flowers.

TREE: In Arizona's sycamore woodlands Box Elder often grows as a small tree or large shrub. Under ideal conditions it reaches large tree size. FLOWERS: Small flowers without petals are borne early in spring in long pendulous spikes of many flowers (above). Flowers usually before leaves emerge fully.

In southern and central Arizona and New Mexico the species is found up to 2440 m (8,000 ft) (23) and in Mexico up to 2680 m (8,800 ft) (18), but even at these elevations it is confined to stream bottoms and wet draws. Boxelder is most commonly found in …

Boxelder is natively a tree of river bottoms and disturbed sites on heavy, wet soils, often seasonally flooded (up to 30 days). It is one of the most common bottomland trees throughout its range, usually following the pioneer species of cottonwood and willow in colonizing alluvial bottoms, then growing with silver and red maples, American elm,

1990年12月1日 · Boxelder is a small to medium-size tree reaching 15 to 23 m (50 to 75 ft) in height and 60 to 120 cm (24 to 48 in) in d.b.h. The species is short-lived, attaining an average age of 60 years but rarely 100 years.

In Arizona and New Mexico, boxelder is the overstory dominant in several high elevation riparian forests. In much of this species' range there are no described plant communities. Published classification schemes listing boxelder as a member of various community types (cts), habitat types (hts), or dominance types (dts) are presented below.

2024年2月15日 · The Box Elder Tree (Acer negundo) is known for thriving in growing conditions with little to no care, producing a large amount of seeds, and being the primary home of Boxelder bugs. In fact, there’s a lot more to this tree than you might realize, and it’s considered special and unique for a wide variety of reasons.