Japanese Tree With Red Leaves
This japanese maple tree also offers brilliant scarlet red fall color.
Japanese tree with red leaves. Japanese red maple in the cultivar group atropurpureum is a versatile ornamental hardy small tree or multi stemmed shrub. In between color varies from remaining red all summer to sometimes fading slightly with maturity or summer heat and even turning green. Its leaves open a bit later than most other trees which helps it avoid potential damage from late spring frosts. The deeply lobed 5 7 9 leaves are red or reddish purple in spring and again in fall.
Up to 15 feet tall and wide. The colors vary from tree to tree and some even have leaves that are mostly an attractive reddish purple color. Acer palmatum wolff emperor i. Native to japan korea and china japanese maples acer palmatum include a rich variety of deciduous shrubs or small trees with graceful habits elegantly cut leaves and extraordinarily colorful foliage particularly in fall when the leaves warm up to dazzling shades of golden yellow red purple and bronze before shedding to the ground.
