Green Japanese Maple Bonsai

Japanese maple bonsai trees are best known for their unique leaf shape and seasonal changes.

Green japanese maple bonsai. Mary mcmahon last modified date. The japanese maple acer palmatum is originally from japan china and korea. Due to their deciduous nature maple trees lose their leaves during the winter and sprout back during the spring. Japanese maple bonsai trees or acer palmatum are highly prized as bonsai due to their unique leaves.

Japanese maples are very diverse trees and green japanese maples come in a variety of cultivars which can meet an assortment of gardening needs. Pot may vary depending on availability. The bark of younger trees is normally green or reddish and turns light grey or grayish brown with age. A green japanese maple is a japanese maple cultivar which produces green leaves in the spring and summer with the leaves turning orange to red and dropping off in the fall.

This very compact and densely branched rounded shrub or tree is an outstanding miniature maple that boasts small bright green leaves with red tips and stems that have a spectacular red orange color in autumn and interesting branching and structure with it s rough corky bark in winter months. Japanese maple bonsai trees are deciduous and will lose all of their leaves during winter. It owes its botanical name to the hand shaped leaves with in most cases five pointed lobes palma is the latin word for the palm of hand. They can be grown in formal upright informal upright and slanting style outdoor bonsai.

These trees are regularly trained as bonsai due to their spectacular colors decent growth rate and overall scalability. Japanese maple trees are one of the most extravagant specimens of bonsai trees regularly available today. 25 may 2020.