Description
Acer palmatum – Japanese Maple – Maple – Rounded headed, deciduous tree from China, Korea and Japan and grows 25’ feet tall and 30’ feet wide. It produces rounded. Shallowly to deeply 5 to 9 lobed, mid green leaves, 2-5” long, which turn orange to yellow or red in autumn. It bears tiny, purple-red flower, produced in small, pendent corymbs, are followed by red winged fruit in late summer
‘Chitoseyama’ – This mound-forming grower grows 6’ feet tall and 10’ feet wide. The leaves have 7 lobes and during summer time are a pale crimson green turning purple-red in autumn.