Acer palmatum 'Suminagashi' (Japanese Maple)

An excellent small landscape tree with graceful burgundy leaves throughout the summer, brilliant fall color; Japanese maples are the most coveted of all small landscape trees, having almost the perfect shape, habit, and fall colors.

Suminagashi Japanese Maple is a dense deciduous tree with a more or less rounded form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and should only be pruned in summer after the leaves have fully developed, as it may 'bleed' sap if pruned in late winter or early spring. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Suminagashi Japanese Maple is primarily valued in the landscape for its ornamental globe-shaped form. It has attractive burgundy deciduous  foliage. The small lobed palmate leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding crimson in the fall. It produces red samaras from early to mid fall.

Suminagashi Japanese Maple will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 15 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 60 years or more.