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beautiful new leaves on small japanese maple (pictures)

teeka0801(7aNoVa)

7 years ago

Sorry, I lost the label for this beauty. I bought it online.It does look like the coral bark?

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Babka NorCal 9b

7 years ago

last modified: 7 years ago

Have looked around the neighborhood, and the sango kaku maples that are leafing out right now, and at local nurseries have coral red stems right up to the skinny little stems that hold the leaves, whereas yours have green. You have a red barked maple. As mentioned above, there are so many variations. When I Google search Coral Bark Maple, Sango Kaku comes up for a couple pages. I don't know if the name is trademarked. Yours isn't that one.

You can easily train a leader on a japanese maple, as we did on our Crimson Queen which is 12' tall and 15' wide, which was planted from a 5 gal can 28 years ago...single trunk.

-Babka

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Embothrium
7 years ago
Yes it does appear to be a red branched form (there is more than one).
Babka NorCal 9b
7 years ago
We had 5 Sango Kaku at one time, and the new leaves were more rose blushed in appearance. Your wood looks more red than coral in the photo, or that could be my computer. Also the leaves on a coral bark aren't as deeply cut as the ones in your photo.

-Babka
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Toronado3800 Zone 6 St Louis
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It is good looking whatever it is.
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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As noted previously, there is more than one form of red or coral bark maple, including dwarfs, so it could be any. IME, newly emerging leaves of Sango Kaku look very similar to this........a wonderful contrast between the colored bark and the bright lime green of the new foliage.
Logan L Johnson
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Beautiful! I would be curious to know if the 3 co-dominant leaders and extremely low branching are a characteristic of this cultivar, or just a result of poor pruning.
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
7 years ago
"curious to know if the 3 co-dominant leaders and extremely low branching are a characteristic of this cultivar"

They can be or are features of just about any Japanese maple, depending on where the graft is located as well as the specific cultivar. And forget the notion of "leaders" with a JM - it is just not applicable. Many cultivars are just large shrubs rather a clearly defined "tree".
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gardengal..I've noticed lots of Japanese maples without a central leader..I bought the prettiest trees that I saw and several have multiple "leaders"..feel better after reading your comment that I don't have inferior trees..they aren't lollipop trees but I love their asymmetrical look..
Mike McGarvey
7 years ago
Teeka, as far as I can make out, yours is not a Sango Kaku. The leaves are different and your bark is not red enough. It looks like one of the red barked maples though.

Here's mine two days ago.
teeka0801(7aNoVa)
Original Author
7 years ago
I see what you all mean about the red not going up as far. Here is a closeup.

i like the low lying, wide look of jm so not thinking of the pruning angle at all.It is only maybe 2'from bottom of pot anyway.

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