Acer palmatum var. heptalobum – Japanese Maple – Maple

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. heptalobum – Grows 20’ feet tall and wide, and has 7-9 broad lobed leaves turning red in autumn