Slow growing dense form, truly dwarf maple. Graceful small weeping tree with red deeply cut leaves Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscapes: Michael McCarthy Memorial Garden, All Saints Episcopal, Concord Mountain Ridge Top Garden - North Lawn and Upper Drive Border Shade Garden Sitting Wall Mountain Ridge Top Garden - North Woods Juniper Level Botanic Gardens: Front Shade Garden Shaded Patio Garden Woodland Backyard Garden Walk Floricyle Shaded Slope Rock & Water Garden Patio Room Small Shade Garden Flowers Galore Relaxed Foundation Planting Asian Garden- Zen Garden Rock and Crevice Garden Water Garden Collector’s Garden Water Feature Bonsai Garden Cultivars / Varieties: VIDEO Created by Elisabeth Meyer for ' Trees, Shrubs and Conifers' a plant identification course offered in partnership with Longwood Gardens. The Clemson Cooperative Extension Home and Garden Information Center has a factsheet on common maple diseases and insect pests. The Mid-Atlantic Pest Council lists it as invasive in VA and DC. It self-seeds easily so can spread and become weedy in the landscape. Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: Aphids, scale, maple worms, leafrollers, and leafhoppers are occasional pests. Anthracnose, leaf scorch, and frost damage, especially from late frosts, can occur. Small, green buds hidden by petiole base terminal bud often doubledįor weeping varieties, see Acer palmatum 'dissectum.'.Slender green to red twigs often glaucous bloom.Serrated leaves with five to nine lobes.

Use it as a woodland understory tree or as an accent or specimen tree along a walkway in an Asian or children’s garden. This tree is mildly resistant to damage by deer. They may suffer leaf scorch with excess sun, wind, or drought. Most cultivars are grafted and can be grown as a single or multi-stemmed small tree. Young leaves of this species are sensitive to frost and are not drought tolerant. Some cultivars have colorful twigs and young branches. This is a prized specimen tree and one of the more versatile maple species for landscape use. Color varies from green during summer to yellow, bronze, purple, and red in fall (color varies with cultivar). Leaves are 2 to 5 inches, opposite, and simple with five to nine lobes. Plant in dappled shade and evenly moist, well-drained soil, protecting it from drying winds. Growth is slow to moderate, and the tree assumes a layered look with a low, dense, rounded top and spreading branches. Acer is Latin for sharp and palmatum means shaped like a hand, referring to the leaves.

Weeping as well as upright varieties exist, and the species is well noted for its beautiful deep red and orange summer color that deepens into the fall. The Japanese maple is a short tree in the Sapindaceae (soapberry) family, native to southeast Korea and central and south Japan, and noted for having many aesthetically pleasing forms. Phonetic Spelling AY-ser pahl-MAY-tum Description

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