| Latin Name | Common Name |
Height | Description |
| Acer p. palmatum |
'Shishigashira' |
10'-15' |
Excellent for bonsai. Beautiful yellow-orange fall color. Slow compact growth habit. |
| Acer palmatum |
'Beni Otake' |
8'-10' |
Very narrow, strap-like leaves that are red and resemble bamboo. Red fall color. |
| Acer palmatum |
'Shaina' |
6'-8' |
A sport of 'Bloodgood' with purple-red foliage. Makes a woody trunk and a nice bonsai
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| Acer palmatum |
'Red Dragon' |
4'-6' |
Growth: Weeping and mounding. Red leaves in spring, bronzy green in summer. Red in fall. |
| Acer palmatum |
'Oshio Beni' |
20'-30' |
Growth: Upright spreading canopy. New growth is bright orange-red in spring becoming bronze or
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| Acer palmatum |
'Osakasuki' |
15'-20' |
Growth:branched, round-topped small tree. Green leaves in spring and summer with intense crimson
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| Acer palmatum |
'Higasayama' |
15'-20' |
A variegated unusual-shaped leaf of pink, cream and dark green veins, turning to cream with light
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| Acer palmatum |
'Katsura' |
6'-8' |
Nice pale yellow-orange, small leaves for several months in spring. Orange-red fall color. |
| Acer palmatum |
'Villa Taranto' |
6'-8' |
A strap-leaf maple with an unusual spring color combination of bright reddish-orange and green
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| Acer palmatum |
'Omurayama' |
10'-15' |
A deeply-divided green leaf with branches that cascade at maturity. Very good orange-red fall
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| Acer palmatum |
'Mikawa Yatsubusa' |
3'-4' |
Very dwarf green maple with extremely short internodes. Leaves are so close together that they
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| Acer palmatum |
'Suminagashi' |
10'-15' |
'Sumi nagashi' has a fast growing habit. The spring color is a bright purple-red. The fall foliage
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| Acer palmatum |
'O'Kagami' |
10'-15' |
Large purplish-black-red leaves that are deeper in color than 'Bloodgood'. Brilliant red fall
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| Acer palmatum |
Coral Bark 'Sango Kaku' |
15'-20' |
Upright vase shape spreading with maturity. Lime green leaves edged in red in spring turning green
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| Acer palmatum |
'Nishiki Gawa' |
15'-20' |
Pine bark maple with green leaves that is heat tolerant and a vigorous grower to twenty feet. The
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| Acer palmatum |
'Boskoop Glory' |
10'-15' |
Wine-red palmate leaves in spring turn to bronze green in summer, then to the brightest orange-red
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| Acer palmatum |
'Deshojo' |
8'-10' |
Semi-dwarf maple similar to 'Shin Deshojo' with just as bright scarlet spring foliage, green in
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| Acer palmatum |
'Sharp's Pygmy' |
3'-4' |
Dwarf maple. Excellent for bonsai or patio. Red fall color. |
| Acer palmatum |
'Kamagata' |
4'-6' |
A dwarf with very nice small green leaves and good red fall color. Desirable for bonsai. |
| Acer palmatum |
'Fireglow' |
10'-15' |
Upright habit. Spring foliage is an intense purple-red that retains it's red color into the hot
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| Acer palmatum |
'Butterfly' |
8'-10' |
Makes a dense large shrub or very small tree. Green with white margined leaves emerge in spring,
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| Acer palmatum |
'Burgundy Lace' |
10'-15' |
Burgundy red in spring and early summer turning bronzy or greenish in late summer and fall. Deeply
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| Acer palmatum |
'Bloodgood' |
15'-20' |
Large leaf variety with a broad canopy spreading to 15' or 20'. Holds deep red color into late
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| Acer palmatum |
'Beni Schichihenge' |
8'-10' |
Variegated foliage similar to 'Butterfly', but the pink is bright orange-pink with white,
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| Acer palmatum |
'Beni Komachi' |
4'-6' |
A dwarf maple with irregular leaves, curly and deeply dissected with an intense scarlet color in the
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| Acer palmatum |
'Beni Kawa' |
10'-15' |
The new coral bark maple with a little more reddish bark that lasts better on older wood. Long
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| Acer palmatum |
Green Japanese Maple |
20'-30' |
This is the green seedling Japanese Maple. It is very hardy and relatively fast growing. Green
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| Acer Palmatum |
Ukigumo |
10'-15' |
Ukigumo is perhaps the most extreme of the variegated Maples, the leaves are sometimes nearly-all
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| Acer palmatum |
'Nishiki Gawa' |
15'-20' |
Lovely green leaves, heat tolerant, very beautiful corky bark first appearing on 3 year-old wood and
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| Acer palmatum |
'Boskoop Glory' |
15'-20' |
A spring wine-red leaf, vigorous with a good spreading habit to 14 feet, brilliant red fall
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| Acer palmatum |
'Beni Komachi' |
6'-8' |
A small maple irregular leaves of intense scarlet in spring, some mottling of pink and green in
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| Acer palmatum |
'Pixie' |
4'-6' |
This cultivar is reputed to be a form of 'Bloodgood'. It is very similar to 'Bloodgood' but with
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| Acer palmatum |
'Ueno yama' |
12"-18" |
Intense orange spring foliage changes to a bright green for summer and then returns to yellow orange
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| Acer palmatum |
'Orange Dream' |
8'-10' |
This is a new Italian hybrid selected for its refreshing spring-colored foliage. Young leaves emerge
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| Acer palmatum |
'Koto no Ito' |
6'-8' |
The name means "harp strings". Leaves unfold with crimson tones in spring. Summer green leaves
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| Acer palmatum |
'Red Emperor' |
15'-20' |
Also called Emperor I. Similar to and possibly an improvement of Bloodgood, retaining its
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| Acer palmatum |
'Bon Fire' |
8'-10' |
The new growth in the spring is a bright red. Its slow growth rate and short twiggy branches make
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| Acer palmatum |
'Shin deshojo' |
4'-6' |
Small fire-engine red leaves in the spring. Turn green in summer and orange red in the fall. Gets
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| Acer palmatum |
'Trompenburg' |
15'-20' |
The palmate leaves separate deeply and the edges roll down. The foliage is a deep purple red in
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| Acer palmatum atropurpureum |
Red Japanese Maple |
15'-20' |
Upright growth that is red in spring and early summer, bronze in late summer changing to red in
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| Acer palmatum disectum |
'Ornatum' |
4'-6' |
The spring foliage is a red bronze color that turns greenish in the summer and then turns a
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
Lace Leaf |
8'-10' |
Finely cut green foliage turns golden yellow in fall. Weeping branches form a cascading mound.
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Viridis' |
6'-8' |
Growth: Cascading, mound-shaped. Bright green foliage through the summer. Very slow growing to
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Ornatum' |
15'-20' |
A very old cultivar that can reach enormous sizes of twenty feet (in 200 years). Easy to grow.
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Red Select' |
4'-6' |
One of the prettiest, weeping, red leaved, dissected maples. Red Select has a downy pubescence on
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Inaba shidare' |
8'-10' |
This dissectum has a more upright, cascading growth habit. The leaves come out purple red in the
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Green Filigree' |
4'-6' |
A delicately variegated yellowish-green leaf dissectum with very finely cut leaves. Good fall color
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Seiryu' |
10'-15' |
An upright larger growing green-leaf dissectum that turns reddish-purple in the fall. Gets 6'-8'
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Tamukeyama' |
6'-8' |
This cultivar has the multi-dissected leaves of the dissectum type.There is a little more width to
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Lion Heart' |
8'-10' |
The first upright growing red-leaf dissectum. Leaves turn greenish-bronze in summer with red fall
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Orangeola' |
6'-8' |
Makes a cascading mound. If not staked, it could be grown as a ground cover or hung over a wall.
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Crimson Queen' |
4'-6' |
Queen of all Japanese maples, Crimson Queen makes a choice cascading mound with multiple layers and
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Garnet' |
6'-8' |
A nice dissectum not so purplish-red as 'Crimson Queen'. With great fall color. A fast
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| Acer palmatum dissectum |
'Palmatifidium' |
4'-6' |
Growth habit: cascading and spreading to 9 feet. Coarser texture than most dissectums. Green in
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| Acer palmatum dissectum atropurpureum |
'Red Filigree' or 'Red Filigree Lace' |
3'-4' |
This has the finest texture of all. The finely divided thread-like, purple red leaves hold their
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| Acer palmatum dissectum'Palmatifidum' |
'Eagles Claw' |
4'-6' |
This is a small slow growing dissectum. The tips of the green leaves turn downwards, hence the name.
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| Acer palmatum var. dissectum |
Sekimori |
6'-8' |
Great for beautiful, yellow, golden, orange fall color. Fern like, dissected leaves are bright
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| Aer palmatum |
'Osakasuki' |
10'-15' |
Large green leaves on a fast and sturdy growing plant with green bark. Known for its brilliant
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