{"id":11897,"date":"2016-02-29T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11897"},"modified":"2016-02-27T02:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T09:53:35","slug":"japanese-maple-root-and-branch-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/japanese-maple-root-and-branch-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Maple &#8211; Root and Branch Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Acer by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6195024379\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6156\/6195024379_bd381f9691.jpg\" alt=\"Acer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ornamental Japanese Maples are widely available for planting in your garden. The autumn colouring makes these trees spectacular when planted en mass in a woodland or Japanese garden setting.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Features of the Japanese Maple<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Latin name<\/strong> Acer palmatum or Acer Japonica, Japanese Acer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Height<\/strong> up to 12m 45 feet with a graceful habit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type of tree<\/strong> &#8211; Deciduous &#8211; dictoyledons<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leaves <\/strong> &#8211; Palm shaped hence the name palmate with 5-9 deep, finely serrated lobes or fingers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flowers<\/strong> Deep red in small inconsequential spreading heads<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fruit <\/strong> Red winged seedheads in pairs. Known as keys.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bark<\/strong> Smooth brown\/grey with pale longitudinal stripes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Family <\/strong> Acer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Origins and Distribution of the Japanese Maple<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Native to China, Japan Korea and Taiwan.<\/li>\n<li>Cultivated in Japan for centuries for its colourful foliage and as a bonsai subject.<\/li>\n<li>Introduced in to Europe in 1820.<\/li>\n<li>Acers are a large family of trees including Sycamore and Maples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Acer japonica by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5648993063\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5024\/5648993063_580c5119ae.jpg\" alt=\"Acer japonica\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Uses and Attributes of the Japanese Maple<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The main use is as an ornamental tree.<\/li>\n<li>Popular in parks and as feature trees in gardens.<\/li>\n<li>The autumn colouring of the leaves can be spectacular and contribute to tourism<\/li>\n<li>Like other maples they can bleed a syrup but I am unaware of any commercial product.<\/li>\n<li>Japanese acers are useful as an understory plant in shady woodlands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Gardeners Tips for the Japanese Maple<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The leaves are thin and lacking in substance. Therefore they are easily damaged by wind and red leaves can burn or shrivel in the sun. Plant in a sheltered location<\/li>\n<li>Japanese maples are slow growing and can be grown in large containers or as bonsai<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/problems-growing-acer-palmatum\/\">Problems Growing Acer palmatum<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/in-the-name-of-japanese-maples-acer\/\">In the name of Japanese Maples<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Acers by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6539872757\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7146\/6539872757_1c58d1e0f2.jpg\" alt=\"Acers\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Other types of Japanese Maple and key species<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>There are hundreds if not thousands of cultivars varying in leaf colour from green, yellow and red<\/li>\n<li>Acer palmatum var. pubescens and Acer japonicum\u00e2\u20ac\u201dDowny Japanese Maple<\/li>\n<li>Acer pseudosieboldianum\u00e2\u20ac\u201dKorean Maple<\/li>\n<li>Acer shirasawanum\u00e2\u20ac\u201dFullmoon Maple<\/li>\n<li>Acer sieboldianum\u00e2\u20ac\u201dSiebold&#8217;s Maple<\/li>\n<li>The national collection of over 100 different Japanese Acers is held at Westonbirt Arboretum, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8QS and is well worth a visit. This is a wider selection of the Japanese Acers you may see there and growers add to their lists regularly: Acer palmatum \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAka shigitatsu sawa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAsahi zuru\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Acer palmatum \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAkegarasu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAoyagi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,&#8217;Ariake nomura\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Acer palmatum \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAureum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAzuma murasaki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHagoromo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Acer palmatum \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBeni kawa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,&#8217;Beni kagami\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,&#8217;Garnet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/growing-acer-japanese-maples\/\"><strong>See link<\/strong> <\/a>for a full list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Japanese Maple comments from elsewhere<\/h2>\n<p>&#8216;Maple collections, sometimes called aceretums, occupy space in many gardens and arboreta around the world including the &#8220;five great W&#8217;s&#8221; in England: Wakehurst Place Garden, Westonbirt Arboretum, Windsor Great Park, Winkworth Arboretum and Wisley Garden.<br \/>\nIn the United States, the aceretum at the Harvard-owned Arnold Arboretum in Boston is especially notable. In the number of species and cultivars, the Esveld Aceretum in Boskoop, Netherlands is the largest in the world.&#8217; <em>Thanks to wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Acer palmatum Japanese maple, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4622084199\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4069\/4622084199_365db40e33.jpg\" alt=\"Acer palmatum\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese maples provide autumn colour and beautiful foliage in a spectrum of colour shape and heights &#8211; well worth growing in a garden <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","category-tree-root-and-branch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}