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Pacific Sunset Maple
Acer truncatum x platanoides ‘Warrenred’
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 430mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 200L about 3 to 4.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 1.2m of clear, level access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Pacific Sunset Maple - Acer truncatum x platanoides ‘Warrenred’
Pacific Sunset is a deliberate cross between the Shantung maple and the Norway maple, bred for street and civic planting where a straight maple will not cope. Acer truncatum x platanoides ‘Warrenred’ makes a tidy upright oval crown of thick, glossy dark green leaves that resist the leaf scorch which plagues ordinary maples in Australian summers, then colours bright yellow orange to red in autumn. It is the maple to use in a hot open car park, nature strip or driveway avenue rather than a sheltered woodland corner.
Why Pacific Sunset Maple
Heat and Drought Resilience: The Shantung parentage gives thick, waxy foliage that holds condition through a run of forty degree days better than Acer species generally.
Predictable Shape: It grows to a symmetrical upright oval with strong central leadership, so avenue plantings stay uniform without heavy formative pruning.
Autumn Display: Colour arrives as clear yellow orange deepening to red, reliably in cool temperate districts and usefully even in warmer ones.
Soil Adaptability: It tolerates alkaline and compacted urban soils that reduce many deciduous shade trees to a decade of decline.
Manageable Scale: A mature height around ten metres keeps it clear of most residential eaves and single phase overhead services.
Ideal Applications
Driveway Avenue: Evenly spaced pairs give a formal deciduous approach with winter sun let through to the house.
Nature Strip and Streetscape: Its restrained root system and tidy crown make it a common municipal specification in southern Australian councils.
Carpark and Hardstand Shade: Handles reflected heat and restricted root volume better than most shade trees of similar size.
Lawn Specimen: A single tree in open lawn shows the full oval crown and colours strongly with unobstructed light.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 4 to 5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 7 to 9m
Best Planting Season: Winter while dormant is ideal. Containerised stock can also go in through autumn.
Soil & Drainage: Wide tolerance across loam, clay loam and mildly alkaline soils. It needs drainage but is not fussy about fertility, and does not want a permanently wet root plate.
Establishment Care: Water deeply every seven to ten days through the first two summers, increasing frequency during heatwaves in the first season only. Mulch to 75mm over the full root plate clear of the trunk, and stake low and loosely for the first year so the stem still flexes and thickens.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 11m
Width: 6 to 8m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: A garden hybrid. Its parent species come from northern China and Europe respectively
Flower Colour: Small yellow green clusters in early spring, modest rather than showy
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
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Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
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How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







