Baby Lace Japanese Maple Trees
This selection has reddish orange spring leaves bronzy green summer foliage and a mix of yellow orange and red in the fall.
Baby lace japanese maple trees. As a group lace leaf maples are sensitive to wind and hot afternoon sun easily burning at the leaf tips so careful placement is advised. Baby lace japanese maple trees are a delicate laceleaf maple tree with very small leaves. The finely dissected leaves become smaller as tree ages. The fall colors are orange red to pinkish red.
Acer palmatum baby lace. This is the baby lace japanese maple tree a very special miniature tree with a kaleidoscope of pink red and green leaves in spring delicate green foliage all summer and vibrant red orange and yellow leaves in fall. Fall colors are orange and red. It originally grew as a witch s broom on another larger dissectum japanese maple.
Small delicate threadlike leaves emerge red and orange in spring. Dwarf size of 2 4 at maturity. Morning sun afternoon shade. What makes this tree really remarkable though is the delicacy of the foliage literally like the finest lace work.
Baby lace is an interesting lace leaf maple that has leaves that are half the size of normal dissectum leaves. The leaves emerge orange and red in spring and quickly changing to green for the summer. The leaves emerge a reddish orange in the spring becoming bronze green for the summer and turning orange red to pink red in the fall. Baby lace becomes about 3 feet tall after about 10 years eventually forming a roundish dense shrub.
The leaves actually get smaller as they age until they are the size of a thumbnail. The broom was propagated and released as baby lace in the early 1980 s. The highly desirable baby lace is the first lace leaf witches broom to be discovered the finely dissected leaves are half the size of normal dissectum leaves in the first year becoming smaller with age until reduced to the size of a thumbnail.