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Acer japonicum
Also called Downy Japanese Maple, Full Moon Maple, Japanese Maple, Amur Maple
Fullmoon maple is a small deciduous tree from Japan, Korea and the Kuril Islands, grown mainly as an ornamental for its large, lobed leaves that turn bright orange to dark red in autumn. Give it sheltered, partly shaded conditions similar to Japanese maple, and it tolerates cold better than the more delicate cultivars of Acer palmatum.
Acer japonicum, fullmoon maple, or downy Japanese-maple (Japanese: はうちは楓, romanized: hauchiwakaede), is a species of maple native to Japan, on Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū (Nagasaki Prefecture), and also southern Korea.
Acer japonicum is frequently cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions of Europe, North America, and elsewhere, though much less commonly than Acer palmatum. In cultivation, it is often only a shrubby tree with multiple trunks joining at ground-level.
Its preferred growing conditions are similar to those of Acer palmatum, but it is sometimes considered more tolerant of cold, especially compared to the more delicate cultivars of the latter.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acer japonicum 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.
