![]() ![]() As with many maples, the flowers are rather attractive close up, but are not particularly showy from a distance. Small reddish flowers in spring give way to samaras which ripen in late summer to early fall. 'Crimson Queen' is a popular cultivar noted for its excellent leaf color retention throughout the growing season. Color varies from green during summer to yellow, bronze, purple. ![]() Each leaf has several lobes (typically 5–7) that all originate from one point looking like an open hand with outstretched fingers. Leaves are 2 to 5 inches, opposite, and simple with five to nine lobes. Specific epithet is in reference to the palmate nature of the leaves. Genus name is the Latin name for a maple tree. Dissectum means deeply cut in reference to the deeply cut, feathery nature of the leaves. These dissected-leaf shrubs are commonly called laceleaf Japanese maple, cutleaf Japanese maple or threadleaf Japanese maple. Mature tree If intense summers are the reason for your Japanese Maple turning green, then you should cover your tree with a shade structure. Palmate leaves, each having 7-11 deeply incised lobes, are deeply cut to the base of the leaf. The leaves mature to a rich, deep red, and they keep their. dissectum is typically a much smaller, rounded, slow-growing shrubby form (often with cascading branching) that rarely matures to more than 12' tall with a larger spread. The foliage emerges a bright green in spring with purple edging and small deep pink flowers in April. ![]() Fall color includes an often spectacular combination of shades of yellow, red, purple and bronze. Small reddish-purple flowers in umbels bloom in spring (April) followed by winged samaras in pairs which ripen in September-October. Each palmate green leaf (2-5" long) has 5 to 7 but less frequently 9 toothed lobes. General plant form is rounded to broad-rounded, often with low branching. Acer palmatum, commonly called Japanese Maple, is a deciduous shrub or small tree that typically grows to 10-25' (infrequently to 40') tall. ![]()
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