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Maple Tree Fall Color: 'Legacy' Sugar Maple or 'Autumn Blaze'

For yellow/gold/red fall color, 'Legacy' sugar maple transitions from yellow to orange-red. 'Autumn Blaze' maple turns brilliant red. View images online to choose.

About Gardening: Mature Maple Tar Spot: Management and Fertilization; Maple Leaf Warts and Holes: Phyllosticta Leaf Spot; Red Bumps on One Maple Only: Insect Galls, Not Disease; Silver Maple Base Sprouts Only: Root Stress and Canopy Loss; Japanese Maple Leaf Scorch and Transplant Shock: Same Symptoms, Different Causes; Phyllosticta Leaf Spot on Maple: The 'Lunar Eclipse' Fungus; Japanese Maple Leaf Spots: Phyllosticta Leaf Spot Diagnosis and Management; Maple Leaf Drop from Heat/Drought: Watering Recovery Plan; Red Bumps on Young Maple Leaves: Harmless Leaf Galls; Phyllosticta Leaf Spot on Young Maple

Garden Articles

Red Maple Bark Splitting: Frost Cracks, Lichens, and Decline Risk

'Bloodgood' Japanese Maple Anthracnose: Wet Spring Disease

Phyllosticta Leaf Spot on Autumn Blaze Maple: Cosmetic, Not Critical

Maple Leaf Blister: Cosmetic Concern, Not a Health Threat

Improving Fall Color on Maples in Eastern Oklahoma

Red Maple Leaf Spots vs. Galls: Identify Before Treating

Maple Spindle Gall Mites: Cosmetic Only

Plants

Sugar Maple White Spots: Harmless Lichens, Real Issue Likely Planting or Herbicide

Ash/Hickory Leaf Spot: Fungal Disease Management and Tree Identification

Mysterious White Foamy Growth on Maple Trunk: Not Slime Flux

Maple Anthracnose: Brown Veinal Discoloration—Cultural and Chemical Control

Phyllosticta Leaf Spot on Japanese Maple: Cosmetic Late-Season Fungus

Red Maple Leaf Galls: Harmless Insect-Induced Growths

Red Bumps on Autumn Blaze Maple: Leaf Spot or Gall?