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Acer palmatum |
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| | Fresh green foliage in early May contrasts with dark red buds |
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| | Yellow autumn foliage |
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| Common name |
Japanese maple |
| Family |
aceraceae |
| Life cycle |
tree |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil (not too dry) |
| Seed ripens | early June |
Japanese maples come in many statures, colors, and leaf shapes. Through the years, we've grown several. A couple of named varieties, 'Shishigashira' and 'Kiyohime' have their own pages. We also grew one with deeply dissected burgundy foliage for a few years, but it was never too happy, dying back several times in its stay in our garden, and finally giving up altogether. By contrast, a rather ordinary upright, green-leaved, plain-shaped small tree, shown in the pictures here, has done quite well for us, and even though it's not particularly special, we like it quite a bit.
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| | Pink propellor seeds on our tree |
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. About my plant portraits
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