Japanese Maple Acer Palmatum
Color varies from green during summer to yellow bronze purple and red fall color color varies with cultivar.
Japanese maple acer palmatum. Vigorous this upright maple tree stands out in the landscape and is suitable as a focal. 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. The delicate foliage holds its color throughout summer and turns brilliant scarlet in the fall. In the german market gardens it is often also offered as schlitzahorn which is also acer palmatum.
This is a prized specimen tree is one of the more versatile maple species for landscape use. Most are deeply lobed. Irohamomiji イロハモミジ or momiji 紅葉 is a species of woody plant native to japan korea china eastern mongolia and southeast russia. Acer palmatum commonly known as japanese maple palmate maple or smooth japanese maple japanese.
For weeping varieties see acer palmatum dissectum. Leaves are 2 to 5 inches opposite and simple with 5 to 9 lobes. 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. The growth of the japanese maple is usually shrubby although it can also be cultivated as a tree.
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 atropurpureum is a small deciduous tree of bushy habit with rich purple leaves in the spring becoming deeper in summer. They have a five lobed leaf and light green spring foliage usually turning deep orange and crimson in autumn.
