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Orangeola weeping japanese maple1/18/2024 ![]() These are mostly slow growing plants and are often sold as advanced shrubs because of this. Those with very finely dissected leaves are prone to leaf scorch in hot weather and are often very slow growing. The leaf structure also varies, some finely dissected others more chunky. The foliage colour is dependant on the cultivar but roughly they are either burgundy or green with many shades in between. During the summer months they generally appear as a mound of foliage albeit a beautiful mound. Anyone who is familiar with these plants will understand their exquisite appearance when bare when the true structure of the plant is revealed. These are deciduous shrubs meaning the leaves fall in Autumn and the plant is bare over winter. Large old specimens may reach 3 metres but this happens over a very long time period. They will grow upwards slowly and with a mounding habit. A weeping maple is going to have a greater spread than height. Weeping maples have branching which generally grows outwards and downwards unlike a conventional deciduous tree whose branches sweep upwards and then weep on the tips. The name disectum is given because of the finely dissected leaves for which these plants are so revered. It is important when buying these plants to remember this and select a plant roughly the height you want. Disectum maples will grow up a little but the habit of their branches is to weep. There are two reasons for this, firstly they are not strong on their own roots and secondly they are weeping shrubs so they mound rather than grow upwards. ![]() This is an Australian bred cultivarÄisectum maples are all grafted on to seedling raised Acer palmatum. All the disectums are of garden origin meaning they do not occur in the wild. In this post I will concentrate on weeping maples because they are the most popular form. Japanese maples are divided into a number of groups, upright trees, upright dwarf and disectum (weeping). Weeping maples fall within the genus of Acer and their species is palmatum, this is the species name for Japanese maples.
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