Japanese Maple Acer Palmatum
The delicate foliage holds its color throughout summer and turns brilliant scarlet in the fall.
Japanese maple acer palmatum. The growth of the japanese maple is usually shrubby although it can also be cultivated as a tree. Acer palmatum is a spectacular exotic plant and an attractive enrichment for small or large gardens. Vigorous this upright maple tree stands out in the landscape and is suitable as a focal. It includes a rich variety of deciduous shrubs or small trees with graceful habits elegantly cut leaves and extraordinarily colorful foliage particularly in the fall when the leaves warm up to dazzling shades of golden yellow red purple and bronze before shedding to the ground.
Each leaf is divided into 5 7 lobes moderately deeply divided lobes. Acer palmatum commonly known as japanese maple palmate maple or smooth japanese maple japanese. Many different cultivars of this maple have been selected and they are grown worldwide for their large variety of attractive forms leaf shapes. Acer palmatum can vary in height and size a little because they are grown from seed but in all cases it is a lovely small tree and very popular.
They have a five lobed leaf and light green spring foliage usually turning deep orange and crimson in autumn. Leaves are 2 to 5 inches opposite and simple with 5 to 9 lobes. Color varies from green during summer to yellow bronze purple and red fall color color varies with cultivar. For weeping varieties see acer palmatum dissectum.
This is a prized specimen tree is one of the more versatile maple species for landscape use. Native to japan korea and china acer palmatum is a species to which most japanese maples belong. Acer palmatum atropurpureum is a small deciduous tree of bushy habit with rich purple leaves in the spring becoming deeper in summer.