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- How do field maple roots spread? - Info about root growth
- Field maple thrives as a heart rhizome
- Close relationship between soil quality and root growth
- Tips
The field maple is a heartworm
How do field maple roots spread? - Info about root growth
Well-founded information on the root image of field maple is few and far between. This results in numerous misjudgments regarding the root power in the width and depth. Before planting field maple as a slope mount, hedge or house tree, we recommend reading this guide on the relationship between soil quality and root growth of Acer campestre.
Field maple thrives as a heart rhizome
Heartworms spread their roots in all directions. In cross section, the root system gives a heart shape, whereupon the name is due. Typical of all maple species is an irregular root system with a pronounced emphasis on horizontal spreading combined with a high proportion of fine roots.
Close relationship between soil quality and root growth
Since 1928, scientists have documented the root growth of field maple and its conspecifics. A direct correlation between soil quality and degree of rooting was revealed. The most important findings in short:
Home gardeners can gather from this data that field maple is not always suitable for slope attachment as area-wide shrub planting. The grander the earth, the lower the required depth growth of the roots. Planted as a solitary house tree, a Maßholder is exposed to wind and weather unprotected, so that in Gleyböden with high groundwater, in shallow gravel soils and loess clay soil with windbreak is expected.
It should be considered advantageous that you do not have to worry about damage to sewage pipes when planting field maple as a regularly cut hedge, provided the pipes are at least 100 cm deep.
Tips
Bonsai gardeners know the heart roots of field maple for the spectacular style of "rock over stone" (Seki-joju) to use. In the building phase, a striking stone is clamped under the roots and fixed with binding wire for some time. The roots of a field maple bonsai grow over the stone into the ground, so that the care effort is not significantly different from other styles.