Picture Notes:  Pictures 10 to 11 are Acer palmatum cv. Atropurpureum.
Picture 12 is Acer palmatum cv. Bloodgood.
Picture 13 is Acer palmatum cv. Corallinum.
Pictures 14 to 16 are Acer palmatum cv. Dissectum.

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Distribution:  Korea, China, Japan. Introduced to England in 1820.

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Hardiness Zone:  USDA Zones 5 or 6 to 8       (view USDA zone map)

Size:   15-25 ft. tall, with a similar or greater spread.

Form:   Deciduous tree. Upright to weeping, mound-like in outline, dense, often multi-stemmed.

Bark:   Bark is medium gray in color, with chalky-white stripes.

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Leaves:   Leaves are opposite, simple, 2-5 inches long, deeply 5-7-9 lobed, doubly serrate, varying from yellow-green to deep maroon-red, depending upon cultivar.

Fall Color:   Fall color is bronze or purplish.

Flower:   Flowers are purple, small, borne in a small, stalked corymb, in May-June, not important.

Fruit:   Fruit is a samara, l/2 inch long, not important.

Uses:   Specimen, patio tree, accent in border.

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Notes:    III divides cv. into groups: (1) cv. with green leaves; (2) cv. with red or reddish leaves; (3) cv. with yellow or golden leaves; and (4) cv. with variegated leaves. RHS use groups for cv.: (1) Palmatum Group with 5 to 7 palmately lobed leaves(incl. Septemlobum Group); (2) Elegans Group with leaves mostly 7 lobed and divided to the base of near it; (3) Dissectum Group with leaves 5 to 9 lobed, incised nearly to the base, lobes pinnatisect or deeply serrate; (4) Linearilobum Group with leaves divided almost to the base into 5 to 7 narrow lobes which are denticulate but not incised; (5) Variegated Cultivars. See Krussmann key to cultivars.

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Cultivars:   

                 *  'Atropurpureum'

                 'Bloodgood'

                 'Burgandy Lace'

                 'Corallinum' =   Coral Bark Maple
                                 [ Bark of young twigs a light coral red, especially in winter.
                                  Leaves 5 lobed, deeply incised or cut, light pink red color at bud
                                  break, orange to light red fall color. ]

                 'Crimson Queen'
                                 [ New growth bright crimson red, staying the same or becoming bronze
                                  green to red; scarlet red fall color. Grows 8 to 10 ft. by 12 ft.
                                  wide with cascading branches. Leaves 7 to 9 to 11 lobed. ]

                 'Dissectum'

                 'Dissectum Atropurpureum'

                 'Dissectum Viridis'

                 'Garnet'
                                 [ A vigorous cv. to 10 ft. tall. Leaves dissected and rich
                                  purple garnet gemstone color that fades to purple green if not in
                                  full sun; good red fall color. Slightly coarser than other
                                  dissected purple types. ]

                 'Ornatum'
                                 [ Sometimes listed as `Dissectum Ornatum'. Leaf lobes finely cut,
                                  young leaves bronze red. ]

                 'Oshio-beni'

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