| 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. Winter ID: lateral buds opposite, red, curved towards stem, surrounded by hairs, 2-4mm long. | |