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There are more than 300 variety of Japanese maples range from upright species that grow up to 20 feet tall to dwarf variety that never arise larger than 5 feet . Japanese maples are a popular plant for specimen trees and landscaping plants . Since the trees diverge in leaf appearance , size of it , overall anatomy and increment habit , identify Japanese Maples is not difficult .
Step 1
measure out a Nipponese maple ’s height . The elevation of a Nipponese maple will help determine if it is a full sized Japanese maple such as Moonfire or one of the nanus varieties including Skeeter ’s Broom .
Step 2
Look over the limbs of the Japanese maple . Most Nipponese maple are grouped as trees or bush . Trees such as Bloodgood have an upright form and uprise tall . Shrubs such as Crimson Queen have a spreading form and bring on a dome - mould canopy .
Step 3
Pick a folio from the tree and count the lobes . Japanese Maple variety fall within subcategories establish on the foliage Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe . Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the amoenum radical such as Osakazuki have leaf lobes that are divide at a moderate slant and separate 2/3 of the direction to the folio groundwork . Nipponese maples in the palmate group such as Fireglow have folio lobes that are divided at a deep slant and split virtually 3/4 of the way to the leaf nucleotide . Maples in the matsumurae chemical group such as Burgundy Lace are deep divided at a unconscionable slant and split over 3/4 of the way to the leaf base . Nipponese maple leave in the linearilobum group such as Villa Taranto have narrow , elongated strap - like lobe that divide at the folio base . Japanese maples in the dissectum group such as Baby Lace have folio lobe that divide and dissect into sublobes . Nipponese maples that do not decrease into any of these family are sort out in a separate , ' other ' family . Green cascade , with its weeping limb and dissected leave of absence is a undecomposed example of an unclassifiable Japanese maple .
Step 4
abide by the appearance of the leave . variegate varieties of Nipponese maple such as Butterfly have strip leaves .
Step 5
disturb the barque of the Japanese maple tree . The color and texture of Japanese maple bark deviate among trees . For example , Bihou Japanese Maple has yellowish orange bark , Bloodgood has gray bark that shades to light purpleness along the twigs and stems and Paperbark maple has a ruddy barque that peels away to reveal a cinnamon - semblance under barque .
Step 6
equate the observed characteristics of your Nipponese Maple against a comprehensive list of Japanese maples and their characteristics . Good sources for Nipponese maple assortment let in baby’s room that specialize in growing the works as well as books that focus on Japanese maple and organization such as The Maple Society .
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