Japanese Tree Varieties
These japanese maples can all grow in full sun or part shade but we do recommend some shade for most of these varieties when grown in southern and other warm climates particularly zones 8 and 9.
Japanese tree varieties. Japanese maples grow from usda zones 5 to 8 or 9. It also tends to resist leaf scorch from hot dry weather better than many other varieties. Japanese lilac tree s bark is a pretty brown studded with lighter lines called lenticels as on cherry trees whereas common lilac s bark is an uninspiring gray. Japanese lilac tree flowers a bit later giving you color in early summer rather than late spring.
Acer palmatum beni schichihenge. There are hundreds of japanese maple varieties that come in various sizes with a large assortment of leaf shapes and colors that range from shades of green to orange red purple and variegated. Japanese maples are the perfect trees for small peaceful landscape sanctuaries like rock zen or cottage gardens. In fall the leaves change to exciting shades of orange and gold.
Japanese black pine pinus thunbergii and japanese white pine pinus parviflora. A smaller japanese maple tree variety beni schichihenge offers blue green leaves variegated in shades of pink and cream. Japanese black pine is native to coastal japan and grows 20 to 60 feet tall and 12 to 20 feet wide. Two kinds of japanese evergreen trees are common in cultivation.