Acer palmatum ‘Katsura’ – Japanese Maple – Maple –

Description

Acer palmatum – Japanese Maple – Maple – Rounded headed, deciduous tree from China, Korea and Japan and grows 25’ feet tall and 30’ feet wide. It produces rounded. Shallowly to deeply 5 to 9 lobed, mid green leaves, 2-5” long, which turn orange to yellow or red in autumn. It bears tiny, purple-red flower, produced in small, pendent corymbs, are followed by red winged fruit in late summer ‘Katsura’ – This spectular shrubbery tree grows to 30’ feet tall with spring foliage being amber that turn yellow in summer and then back to amber in autumn.