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
Var. dissectum – Acer dissestum – Growing in a mound 6’ feet tall and 10’ feet wide. On arching shoots it carries 7-11 lobed deeply and finely cut leaves turning gold in autumn
