Michigan State University Extension
Ornamental Plants plus Version 2.0 - 00000018
01/01/98
Hardiness Zones: 5 to 8 Height: 20 ft Spread: 20 ft Form: rounded Type: deciduous shrub or small tree Annual Growth Rate: less than 12 inches
Comments: Japanese maple cultivars provide interesting variations in leaf color and pattern but most are slow growers. A tendency to leaf out early makes these maples susceptible to spring frosts. Protect them from drying winds and direct sun.
Cultivars:
'Atrolinear'('Willow Leaf') - Long, narrow-lobed leaves
are red-orange in color on an upright tree.
atropurpureum - Seedlings vary in size, color and leaf
shape. Usually a vigorous, red-leaved, upright
plant.
'Beni schichihenge' - The leaves are orange with white
margins on a small tree.
'Bloodgood' - A popular upright cultivar with large,
deep red leaves. The leaves are red in spring but
become purple in summer. The seeds have red wings
and the fall color is crimson.
'Burgundy Lace' - A small, low-branched, spreading tree
with red, deeply-divided leaves that have serrated
edges. The fall color is red.
'Butterfly' - A small tree with blue-green leaves
variegated with white and a hint of pink. In the
fall, the white margins turn bright magenta. Grow in
full sun or light shade.
'Chiba' - A small, globe-shaped tree with tiny leaves.
Useful in containers.
'Chishio' - Only four feet tall, this twiggy plant has
red new growth which turns gree in summer and then
red in the fall. Provide protection from winter
winds.
'Corallinum' - A small, tree with changing foliage
color; pink in the spring, green with slight speckled
variations in summer and red in the fall.
'Crimson Prince' - A hardy selection with more vigor
and a deeper red color than 'Bloodgood'.
'Deshojo' - An upright tree with bright red new foliage
that turns green, red fall color
dissectum 'Crimson Queen' - A mounding plant with
finely dissected foliage that retains its red color
during the summer.
dissectum 'Ever Red' - A red-leaved cultivar with
finely dissected leaves.
dissectum 'Filigree' - The leaves are edged with white
and yellow. A gold fall color.
dissectum 'Flavescens' - The weeping tree has cut
leaves that turn yellow to orange in the fall. The
tree will be 6 feet tall and 8 feet wide.
dissectum 'Garnet' - A spreading plant with large,
garnet-colored leaves.
dissectum 'Germaine's' - A green dissectum with
slightly twisting branches, becoming wider than tall.
dissectum 'Green Lace' - A small plant with cut, green
leaves.
dissectum 'Red Filigree Lace' - A slow-growing, maple
with maroon, thread-like foliage throughout the
growing season.
dissectum ('Red Select') 'Inaba shidare' - A vigorous
laceleaf with leaves through the summer then turning
bright red in the fall.
dissectum 'Red Dragon' - This 5-foot plant has purple
foliage through the growing season. The foliage is
bright red in autumn.
dissectum 'Seiryu' - An upright, green-leaved cultivar
with a yellow and red fall color.
dissectum 'Tamukeyama' - A weeping, cut leaf form with
purple foliage that turns red in the fall. The plant
will be 8 feet tall and 12 feet wide.
dissectum 'Viridis' - A mound form with bright green
leaves and a yellow and red fall color.
'Fireglow' - An upright cultivar with bright red
foliage throughout the summer.
'Hagoromo' - This ten-foot tall plant plant has green,
feathery leaves that turn yellow and orange in the
fall.
'Kagiri nishiki' - An vase-shaped tree with small pink
and white variegated leaves.
'Karasugawa' - The new growth light pink with older
leaves mottled white and pink. The stems are also
pink and cream, somewhat tender.
'Katsura' - Small, five-lobed leaves are yellow-orange,
turning green. Fall color is yellow and orange.
'Linearilobum' - Narrow, lobed, green leaves.
'Moonfire' - This upright plant will reach a height and
spread of 15 feet. The foliage is deep purple.
'Okagami' - A ten-foot tall plant. The new growth is
reddish, turns dark red until late summer then
becomes green before turning red in the fall.
'Okushimo' ('Crispa') - A narrow upright tree with
intense golden fall color. Good for narrow sites.
'Oshio-beni' - A medium-sized, upright tree with bright
red leaves that turn scarlet in the fall.
'Osakazuki' - An upright tree with with large, seven-
lobed leaves that are bright red in the fall.
'Sharp's Pygmy' - A miniature that originated as a
seedling selection from the Sharp Nursery, Boring
Oregon. A compact, densely branched, rounded shrub
with deep red fall foliage color.
'Red Pygmy' - A broad tree with narrow, maroon leaves.
Branches producing the large, palmate-type leaves
will produce the narrower leaves the following year.
'Sango-kaku' - (Coral Bark Maple) - An upright cultivar
with coral-red bark and yellow fall color.
'Shaina' - This cultivar originated as a witch's broom
on a 'Bloodgood'. It has dark-red leaves and a
dense, layered look.
'Sherwood Flame' - A vigorous, small tree with deeply
divided, red leaves. A selection by Will Curtis,
Sherwood, Oregon.
'Shigitatsu sawa' - A small tree yellowish-green leaves
that have prominent green veins and green speckling.
The fall leaf color is red.
'Shindeshojo' - A small tree only 6 feet tall. The
foliage is red in the spring, becoming green with
white flecks in summer then turning red and orange in
autumn.
'Shishigashira' - Upright branches bear dark green,
crinkled leaves that turn bright orange in late fall.
'Suminagashi' - The deeply-lobed leaves are various
shades of purplish red to maroon throughout the
growing season.
'Tobiosho' - An upright tree with scarlet fall color.
A 1982 selection by Iseli Nursery.
'Trompenburg' - A vigorous tree with purple-red leaves.
'Tsuma gaki' - A small tree with yellow-green leaves
tipped with red.
'Vandermossred' - (Christyann TM) - The finely cut
leaves are purple during the growing season. The
plant reaches a height and spread of 5 feet.
'Vandermossuper' - (Fascination TM) - This rounded
plant reaches a height and spread of 16 feet. The
large, green leaves turn orange in fall.
'Waterfall' - The cascading branches are produced on a
slow-growing tree that will be 8 feet tall and 10
feet wide. The fall color is yellow.
References for Cultivars: Iseli 1997, Princeton Nurseries 1997, Lake County Nursery 1997, Weston Nurseries 1997, J Frank Schmidt and Son 1997, Monrovia Nursery Company 1997, Ray Wiegand's Nursery 1997, Wayside Gardens 1996, Sheridan Nurseries 1997, Studebaker Nurseries 1998.