Plant: Burgundy Lace - Japanese Maple
Japanese Maple · Acer palmatum 'Burgundy Lace'
Size: 5 gal
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More about this plant
Burgundy Lace is a small upright Japanese maple with a well branched, graceful habit and a rounded spreading crown. Each palmate leaf has seven narrow, deeply cut, finely serrated lobes that emerge burgundy wine, hold their colour well into summer before turning bronze to green, then finish bright red in fall. It grows at a moderate rate in dappled sun to partial shade in a moist, well drained soil, and was introduced into commerce in 1958 by Vermeulen and Sons of New Jersey. Use it as an accent or specimen at a woodland edge, in a bed or beside a patio.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 18 ft tall and 20 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Burgundy Lace is a small upright Japanese maple with a well branched, graceful habit and a rounded spreading crown. Each palmate leaf has seven narrow, deeply cut, finely serrated lobes that emerge burgundy wine, hold their colour well into summer before turning bronze to green, then finish bright red in fall. It grows at a moderate rate in dappled sun to partial shade in a moist, well drained soil, and was introduced into commerce in 1958 by Vermeulen and Sons of New Jersey. Use it as an accent or specimen at a woodland edge, in a bed or beside a patio.
- Flowers
- Small red to purple flowers appear in spring; attractive viewed closely but insignificant from a distance.
- Foliage
- Each palmate leaf carries seven narrow, deeply cut and finely serrated lobes; burgundy wine in spring, holding colour well before turning bronze green in summer heat and bright red in fall.
- Fruit
- A schizocarp of two samaras with incurved wings forming an arch, becoming reddish in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Young stems vary from green to polished reddish brown; older branches assume a gray cast.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Native range
- Japan, China, Korea, eastern Mongolia and southeastern Russia
