Plant: Osakazuki - Japanese Maple
Japanese Maple · Acer palmatum 'Osakazuki'
Size: 5 gal
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More about this plant
Osakazuki is a classic green leaved Japanese maple with a rounded form, maturing at roughly 15 to 24 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet wide at a medium rate. Its palmate leaves are 2 to 5 inches across with seven deep lobes and serrated margins, green through summer and turning brilliant red burgundy and orange in fall, followed by three quarter inch reddish samaras. The bark is green and light gray and smooth. It takes dappled sunlight through partial shade or full sun in a moist, well drained acid soil of clay, loam or sand, and tolerates drought and wind. Use it as a specimen, understory tree or foundation planting. It self seeds readily and can be weedy.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 24 ft tall and 15 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Osakazuki is a classic green leaved Japanese maple with a rounded form, maturing at roughly 15 to 24 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet wide at a medium rate. Its palmate leaves are 2 to 5 inches across with seven deep lobes and serrated margins, green through summer and turning brilliant red burgundy and orange in fall, followed by three quarter inch reddish samaras. The bark is green and light gray and smooth. It takes dappled sunlight through partial shade or full sun in a moist, well drained acid soil of clay, loam or sand, and tolerates drought and wind. Use it as a specimen, understory tree or foundation planting. It self seeds readily and can be weedy.
- Flowers
- Small red to purple flowers appear in spring; attractive viewed closely but insignificant from a distance.
- Foliage
- Palmate leaves 2 to 5 inches across with seven deep lobes and serrated margins, green in summer and turning brilliant red burgundy and orange in fall.
- Fruit
- Reddish samaras about three quarters of an inch long, displayed in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Young stems vary from green to polished reddish brown; older branches assume a gray cast.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Morning Sun
- Native range
- Southeast Korea and central and south Japan
