{"id":9647,"date":"2011-02-09T12:46:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9647"},"modified":"2012-10-24T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:24:20","slug":"snake-bark-maple-acer-varieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/snake-bark-maple-acer-varieties\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake Bark Maple &#8211; Acer Varieties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Burnby Hall Pocklington by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4751645180\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4099\/4751645180_ee0eacaf26.jpg\" alt=\"Burnby Hall Pocklington\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acer rufinerve<\/strong> is the tree I have always believed to be the Snake Bark Maple shown above. It has red autumn leaves and the distinctive bark. However there are other Maples with a snake bark and they tend to cross pollinate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Acer grosseri var. hersii<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> A popular snakebark maple for small gardens, since it grows rapidly in its early years and then settles down.<\/li>\n<li> Can be pruned in winter to control final size.<\/li>\n<li> An established tree is unmistakable with its upright branches with green bark  striped conspicuously with white.<\/li>\n<li> The seeds  in pairs of broad wings are clustered on long strings.<\/li>\n<li> In autumn the thick, rubbery leaves turn yellow, orange and red shades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Acer capillipes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The background colours may be green, dark purplish-brown or red overlayed by a vertical lattice of fine white lines giving a snake skin effect.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li> This species, when young,\u00c2\u00a0 is one of the finest for bark colour.<\/li>\n<li>After 2 years the bark becomes browner and then greenish-brown with well defined white vertical stripes.<\/li>\n<li> The  tree has bright green, three lobed leaves which turn orange and red in the autumn.<\/li>\n<li> Hybrids with other closely related &#8216;snake-barks&#8217; are common.<\/li>\n<li> The name capillipes is a reference to the slender hair like stalks on the seeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Acer davidii &#8216;George Forrest&#8217; <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> A tree with spreading branches with a pendulous habit reaching 24-30&#8242;<\/li>\n<li> The leaves are dark green, triangular, glossy and deeply-veined and are held on bright red stalks that catch the light.<\/li>\n<li> A snake bark maples noted for its smooth, striped bark in shades of green, brown and silvery white.<\/li>\n<li>The spring flowers are yellow held on pendulous stalks.<\/li>\n<li>This maple needs a sheltered site or the foliage can get scorched.<\/li>\n<li>Site the tree near a path so the beauty of its bark can be admired.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Acer pensylvanicum &#8211; &#8216;Erythrocladum&#8217; <\/strong><em><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forms a rounded compact tree suitable for small gardens<\/li>\n<li>Will not tolerate exposed or hot and sunny locations.  <\/li>\n<li>Red stems and trunk dominate the grey stripes <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow the full story of Bark <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14145\">on our other pages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acer rufinerve is the tree I have always believed to be the Snake Bark Maple shown above. It has red autumn leaves and the distinctive bark. However there are other Maples with a snake bark and they tend to cross pollinate. Acer grosseri var. hersii A popular snakebark maple for small gardens, since it grows rapidly in its early years and then settles down. Can be pruned in winter to control final size. An established tree is unmistakable with its&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/snake-bark-maple-acer-varieties\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647","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=9647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}