Acer palmatum, a.k.a. ‘Baby Ghost’, is unique, with deep-amber to red spring foliage with green veins.It’s the shortest of the Ghost series of Japanese maples. Fall colors are bright orange ...

WHEN IT COMES to autumn color, it’s all about maples. From our native big leaf (Acer macrophyllum) with its dinner-plate-size leaves, to delicate, feathery Japanese maples, you can count on ...

Acer palmatum has been cultivated in Japan for more than 1,000 years, he said. Today, there’s a cultivar for almost any effect or location: Some feature narrow, even stringlike leaf lobes, while ...

There are hundreds of varieties of Japanese maples, known botanically as Acer palmatum. ... Japanese maples are also slow-growing by their nature, so that 5-, 10-, ...