![]() ![]() They are nothing more than red seedlings with the botanical name of Acer palmatum atropurpureum.Īcer is the botanical name for a maple tree, palmatum means Japanese maple and atropurpureum means red leaves. ![]() But you can’t call them Bloodgood, Oshi Beni or Emporer I. Seeds from those trees are likely to produce seedlings with nice red color. Bloodgood is one of the most popular, another is Oshi Beni and another is Emporer I.Īll awesome plants. There are a number of Japanese maples that are notorious for deep red color. If you collect Japanese maple seeds from a tree with really deep red color, chances are, many of the seedlings that you grow will have good red color and are likely to hold that color pretty well throughout the growing season. Maybe not all of them, but of them are likely to have green leaves. If you collect Japanese maple seeds from a Japanese maple that has green leaves, chances are your seedlings will have green leaves. There a few things about collecting Japanese maple seeds that we think we know, but there is always that complete unpredictability that makes this fun. There are more than 1,000 Japanese maple varieties in the world today, so there are plenty of chances that your seedling could be the next big variety to come to market. But there is always that chance that one of your seedlings could the most awesome Japanese maple ever! Some with red leaves, some with green leaves, what most would consider “generic Japanese maples”. Truth be told, if you grow Japanese maples from seed, you are probably going to end up with some rather generic seedlings. Growing Japanese maples from seed is exciting. If you care to read that story you can do so here. Not a Japanese maple, but a truly amazing plant that was a “chance seedling”, discovered by a very astute gardener and developed and brought to market by a very talented nurseryman. Honestly, when an awesome chance seedling is discovered, it is nothing short of a miracle and all of us who love and appreciate plantsare better because of it.Ī perfect example of that is the Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud tree. when chance seedlings do appear, a very astute gardener needs to be nearby to actually take notice and realize that something really special has happened. This beautiful tree, the Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud tree is the direct result of a chance seedling being discovered by a very astute gardener.Īnd. Asexual reproduction is how nurserymen or nursery women create hundreds and hundreds of identical plants so homeowners across the land can enjoy them. Without “asexual reproduction” most of the beautiful and amazing plants that we have come to love would never be known to us because there would only one of them. Asexual reproduction produces an exact clone of the parent plant. When a plant is grown from a cutting, a graft or a bud that is considered asexual reproduction because it that is not the way that nature intended for plants to be reproduced. Growing a plant from seed is considered sexual reproduction. It has to be budded or grafted to a seedling. A Japanese maple like this cannot be grown from seed. The leaves are much smaller than a regular, or generic Japanese maple and they have very interesting jagged edges. Dissectum meaning split-leaf or cut leaf. The Japanese maple in the above photos is Waterfall, which is in the dissectum family of Japanese maples. Most of the rare, or interesting varieties of Japanese maples are actually grafted on to a Japanese maple seedling, which of course is grown from seed. It’s important to understand that not all, in fact, many Japanese maples are not grown from seed. Japanese maples grown from seed are not an exact clone of the parent plant. All kinds of varieties and they do just fine.Crimson Queen Laceleaf Japanese Red Maple. With that said, I grow Japanese maples in out in the field, in full sun. It is necessary? Not in zones 5 or 6, but in warmer zones it would be beneficial. How about that fall color? From fluorescent green to a beautiful burnt orange!Ī little shade is always beneficial to a dissectum Japanese maples because it gives the foliage a little break from the sun in at least part of the day. You can easily kill them with too much fertilizer. Please do not over fertilize your Japanese maples. It is said that regular watering can prevent that, but I am always leary of telling people to water Japanese maples on a regular basis because if the soil in your yard does not drain well it’s very easy to over water them and they do not like wet feet. Like most dissectum Japanese maples the edges of the leaves turn slightly brown in late summer. They do really well here in zone 5 and will probably do equally well up to zone 8. I’ve had a number of these ‘Waterfall’ Japanese maples in my landscape for years. Right now the foliage is almost fluorescent green. I don’t feel that even these photos do this tree justice. ![]()
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