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Acer crataegifolium
Also called Hawthorn maple, Hawthorn-leaf maple, Uri maple
Acer crataegifolium is a small deciduous tree or shrub from the mountain forests of Japan, prized for its snakebark and rarely grown outside large collections. It is a species, not a genus, and it is not a common houseplant.
Acer crataegifolium (hawthorn-leaf maple or uri maple; Japanese: ウリカエデ urikaede, "melon maple"), is a species of maple in the snakebark maple group, native to mountains forests of central and southern Japan, on Honshū (Fukushima southward), Kyūshū, and Shikoku.
Though first introduced to England by Charles Maries of Veitch Nursery in 1879 it is a somewhat difficult maple to propagate, and rarely seen outside of sizable collections. Examples may be seen in Westonbirt Arboretum (Gloucestershire, England) and the Arnold Arboretum (Boston, USA). The rare cultivars 'Me uri no ofu' and 'Veitchii' both have striking white and pink variegation.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acer crataegifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
