Plant: Viridis - Weeping Dwarf Japanese Maple
Japanese Maple · Acer palmatum 'Viridis'
Size: 15 gal
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More about this plant
A slow growing green laceleaf Japanese maple whose strongly cascading branches build an elegant domed, mounding form. The finely dissected leaves are bright green through spring and summer and turn gold, yellow and orange with crimson highlights in fall, after which the layered branching carries the winter picture. It prefers dappled shade and moist, well drained soil high in organic matter, and leaf tips can burn in extremely hot afternoon sun. Use it as a cascading specimen, a container plant or a focal point at a woodland edge or pond side.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 10 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A slow growing green laceleaf Japanese maple whose strongly cascading branches build an elegant domed, mounding form. The finely dissected leaves are bright green through spring and summer and turn gold, yellow and orange with crimson highlights in fall, after which the layered branching carries the winter picture. It prefers dappled shade and moist, well drained soil high in organic matter, and leaf tips can burn in extremely hot afternoon sun. Use it as a cascading specimen, a container plant or a focal point at a woodland edge or pond side.
- Flowers
- Flowers are small and red to purple, carried in spring.
- Foliage
- Opposite, simple leaves with 5 to 9 deeply dissected lobes, emerging light yellow green and holding a bright medium green through summer before turning gold, yellow and orange with crimson highlights.
- Fruit
- A schizocarp of two samaras, the wings incurved to form an arch.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
