| Scientific Name: | Acer palmatum |
| Common Name: | Japanese maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Shade tree, Specimen plant, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Obovate, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Yellow, Red, Apr |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Green, Pink, Red, Brown, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, blades orbicular, most 4-12cm wide, palmately veined, most with 7 broad lobes, some cultivars with dissected leaves or with elliptic leaflets, margins serrate; fruit a schizocarp, 2-3cm wide, mericarps 2, samara-like, thick edge of wings at a 90-120 degree angle. Winter ID: buds, ovoid, have light brown hairs on a papery sheath that extends halfway up. | |