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The Painted Maple

Acer pictum

Also called Mono Maple, Yellow Paint Maple, Painted Maple

The Painted Maple
Photo: TeunSpaans, Public domain

Acer pictum is a deciduous Asian maple tree, up to about 20 m tall in the wild, grown as a shade or ornamental tree in temperate gardens. It is mainly grown outdoors and is valued for its lobed leaves and autumn colour.

Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water regularly while established and during dry spells, allowing the top of the soil to dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Moist, well-drained loam; tolerates a range of soil types.
Temperature
Hardy to about -25 °C; protect young trees from late frosts.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Russian Far East to China and Japan
Climate
temperate

About

Acer pictum, commonly known as yellow-paint maple, is an Asian species of maple. It widespread across much of China as well as Korea, Japan, Mongolia, and eastern Russia. Its natural habitat is in temperate forests.

Acer pictum is a deciduous tree up to 20 meters tall, with gray bark. Leaves are non-compound, thin, up to 12 cm wide and 12 cm across, toothless, with 3, 5, 7, or 9 lobes.

Other Acer plants

Tapering Leaf Maple · Acer alaskense · Himalayan Maple · Acer amamiense · Broad Maple · Deep-veined Maple · Acer ashwilli · Bearded maple · Jalisco Maple · Acer brevipes · Acer browni · Trident maple

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acer pictum 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.

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