Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Astonishing-ly Pink Japanese Maple

Every year it happens, and every year I am astonished. I still don't know what variety/cultivar this is, so if anyone knows, please enlighten me.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

saw one like it at Hatley castle labeled as "Sinde shojo" BUT Sinde shojo as far as I can tell has green growth and only in early spring is the new growth green.....I am also intrigued and would like to find the name of this variety!
Lou

Anonymous said...

sorry; did not proof read.....should have said only in spring is the new growth PINK!
Lou

Victoria Lynn Oyola said...

I am about 97&1/2% sure that this is an Acer Palmatum Atropurpurem. I spent over 3&1/2 hours searching on 4 different phones with a few magnifying glasses comparing a bunch of similar looking trees till I narrowed it down to these 3:
1)The Acer Palmatum Atropurpurem
2) The Acer Palmatum Fireglow
3) The Acer Palmatum Osakazuki
Then I spent about another 4 hours or so researching each one from the thickness of trunk & branches to shape of leaves to the patterns of which way the branches grow & all that stuff(my husband thought I was going crazy on him lol) till I came to the conclusion it was the....
~Acer Palmatum Atropurpurem~
All because the minute I saw a picture of this absolutely beautiful & stunning Pink Japanese Maple on Pinterest so I took a picture of it & searched for it on Google Lens & found only this article but I had to find out what the name of the tree was.