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Acer shirasawanum
Also called Fullmoon maple, Full Moon Maple, Shirasawa Maple, Golden Full Moon Maple, Japanese Moon Maple
Shirasawa's maple is a deciduous large shrub or small tree from Japan, grown mainly for its rounded, lobed leaves that turn gold to dark red in autumn. It is less common in gardens than Japanese maple and is usually grafted onto hardier maples.
Acer shirasawanum, the Shirasawa maple or fullmoon maple (Japanese: オオイタヤメイゲツ, romanized: ooitayameigetsu), is a species of maple native to Japan, on central and southern Honshū (Fukushima Prefecture southwards), Shikoku, and Kyūshū.
It is grown as an ornamental tree in gardens for its foliage and autumn colour, but is seen far less commonly than Acer palmatum (Japanese maple). A number of cultivars have been selected; the lighter-coloured A. shirasawanum cultivar 'Aureum' is very widely grown, much more common in cultivation than the main species, and has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
It is propagated by grafting onto more hardy and fast-growing Acer species, in particular A. palmatum and A. japonicum.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acer shirasawanum 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.
