#Red japanese maple leaf full

Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: VIDEO created by Andy Pulte for “Landscape Plant Identification, Taxonomy and Morphology” a plant identification course offered by the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee. The Clemson Cooperative Extension Home and Garden Information Center has a factsheet on common maple diseases and insect pests. It self-seeds easily so can spread and become weedy in the landscape. See potential insect and disease problem fact sheets to the left. 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. Plant as a specimen or woodland tree in acid to neutral well-drained soil.

#Red japanese maple leaf full

In warmer areas, it will benefit from afternoon shade and may need extra moisture if grown in full sun. This slow-growing tree will remain quite small in colder climates (USDA zone 5). Typically the leaves turn red/purple in spring, but may fade to a green/bronze in summer heat. This variety name refers to the red/purple leaf color and is used for many red-leaved seedlings. Acer is Latin for sharp and palmatum means shaped like a hand, referring to the leaves. Japanese maple parent plants are native to southeast Korea and central and south Japan.

This plant is one of the most commercially valuable landscape trees because of its dramatic leaf characteristics. Red-leaf Japanese maple (Sapindaceae family) is a small, 25 foot high, maple variety with striking purple leaves that turn red in autumn. Flowers are followed by samaras that ripen in late summer to fall.Phonetic Spelling AY-ser pal-MA-tum at-ro-pur-PUR-ee-um Description Small reddish-purple flowers in spring are somewhat attractive on close inspection, but are not showy from a distance. Foliage is noted for retaining good color throughout the summer. It features deeply cut and dissected purple red leaves (to 4” long) that turn brighter red in fall. ‘Tamukeyama’ is a red-leaf, dissected (cutleaf/laceleaf) cultivar that grows in a mound or dome to 6-8’ tall spreading by weeping and cascading branching to 12’ wide. Each leaf has several lobes (typically 5–7) that all originate from one point looking like an open hand with outstretched fingers. 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. Palmate leaves, each having 7-11 deeply incised lobes, are deeply cut to the base of the leaf. 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. 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.