Japanese Maple Vs Red Maple
We will take a look the red maple vs japanese maple to help you determine their differences.
Japanese maple vs red maple. A red maple will have rather large leaves and grows to great heights with a large trunk base. The deeply lobed 5 7 9 leaves are red or reddish purple in spring and again in fall. Thanks for the suggestions. Two of the most common choices for yards around north american are the red maple and the japanese maple.
They started me on an odyssey of learning about trees. The silver maple s leaves are wider than the red maple s 5 to 7 inches versus 2 to 6 inches and have five lobes instead of three. Japanese red maple in the cultivar group atropurpureum is a versatile ornamental hardy small tree or multi stemmed shrub. This dwarf shade tree offers 3 seasons of rich red to purple color.
Two were the traditional bloodgood which i was familiar with having grown it before the third was an emperor i also known as wolff maple. There are so very many cultivars of red japanese maple or acer palmatum. There are around 100 species of maple trees out there. Bloodgood is a very solid and predictable variety.
The main attraction of the paperback maple is its peeling brown red bark while the shantung maple features colorful fall foliage with the leaves changing to shades of red and orange. The undersides of the silver maple s new leaves are silver white in color while the red maple s new leaves have a whitish undertone. Among the cultivars of the japanese maple are the bloodgood featuring red leaves and the shaina a dwarf cultivar growing to only 6 feet. This japanese maple is an amazing red upright selection from tsukasa nursery in japan.
Emperor one is an improved variety of upright japanese maple that is similar to the classic bloodgood. The emperor one japanese maple grows 10 to 15 feet tall and wide at maturity. Emperor one japanese maple. Hi no tsukasa is not a deep maroon but yet in morning sun holds that bright red spring color throughout most of the growing season.
According to masayoshi yano this is the best red japanese maple when given sunlight. A japenese maple tree has a green trunk and grows very slow the leaves are small and pointed with a lilttle bit of red on the edge of the leaves. Originally i was only considering the dogwood or japanese maple because i didn t think there were any other tress small enough but now i m putting off the decision until at least spring because i really had no idea there were so many different kinds of trees that would work here. The leaves aren t too small fine too big and fat the color is also predictable not too dark nor abnormally red.
While both are gorgeous particularly in the fall they are quite different trees. I just planted several red japanese maples in my zone 8b hilton head sc garden.