Scientific Name: Acer palmatum 'Koto No Ito'
Common Name: Koto No Ito maple
Family Name: Sapindaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Tree - deciduous
Mature Size: 3 - 5m x 4 - 5m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Spreading, Twiggy
Form: Round
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Fall interest, Mixed shrub border, Shade tree, Small garden/space, Specimen plant, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Digitate (palmate), Lanceolate, Linear, Other, Double serrate, Palmately lobed
Flowers: Cyme, Dark-red, Apr
Fruit: Samara, Schizocarp, Green, Red, Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent)
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite, deeply dissected to petiole (appearing palmately compound) with 3 to 5, narrow, jagged-edged lobes (linear or lanceolate and reminiscent of cannabis), most 5-8cm long x 0.2-2cm wide; samaras persistent, red and green.