(Fullmoon Maple, Green Cascade Fullmoon Maple)

The beautiful 'Green Cascade' is an elegant, weeping, deciduous shrub with finely lobed leaves and a compact, domed habit. This cultivar of Acer japonicum resembles the dissectum forms of another Northeast Asian species — Acer palmatum. In autumn, its foliage turns shades of red. The naked gray pendulous branches are beautiful in winter, particularly when outlined with snow.

Tolerant of most soils and sun or partial shade, this cultivar makes a lovely specimen plant for a lawn,...

(Fullmoon Maple, Lion's Headdress Fullmoon Maple, Shishigashira Fullmoon Maple)

Fullmoon maple is a small, often multi-stemmed, deciduous tree native to Northeast Asia. It has an elegant broad spreading canopy covered with rounded, lobed leaves of medium green that turn bright red, orange or yellow in the fall. Attractive red flowers appear with the emerging leaves; red winged fruits follow. This maple is most frequently grown in the form of its cultivar 'Aconitifolium', which has handsome, deeply incised foliage. Also noteworthy is 'Vitifolium', with large leaves and especially...

(Downy Japanese Maple, Fullmoon Maple, Grape-leaved Downy Japanese Maple)

Fullmoon maple is a small, often multi-stemmed, deciduous tree native to Northeast Asia. The elegant, broad-spreading branches of the cultivar 'Vitifolium' are clothed with bold, lobed leaves that recall those of grape. They turn brilliant shades in fall. Attractive red flowers appear with the emerging leaves, followed by winged red fruits. The smooth gray bark provides winter interest.

Tolerant of most soils and sun or partial shade, fullmoon maple is a good tree for the lawn, shade garden,...

(Manchurian Maple)

A beautiful but rarely grown maple, this large shrub or small tree from eastern Asia has three-parted leaves that are smooth, unlike those of the similar Nikko maple. Often multi-trunked and low-branched with a broad rounded crown, it is usually one of the first maples to come into growth in spring. The shiny dark green leaves are also early to color in fall, turning brilliant shades of red while most other maple are still green. The handsome pale brown bark offers winter interest. Inconspicuous...

(Miyabe Maple)

Attractive gray bark, a rounded upright habit, and handsome dark green foliage are among the worthy features of this medium-sized deciduous tree from Japan. Three- to five-lobed leaves that resemble those of hedge maple (Acer campestre) remain clean and healthy through the summer before turning dull yellow in fall. Clusters of inconspicuous yellow-green flowers in spring are followed by two-winged fruits that mature from green to brown. The bark is lustrous brown on young stems, and gray...

(California Ash-Leaved Maple, California Boxelder)

Somewhat smaller than most others of its kind, California box elder is a short-lived deciduous tree native to much of the state whose name it bears. Typically low-branched with furrowed light gray to gray-brown bark, it has downy, bright green, compound leaves with three or sometimes five leaflets. Inconspicuous greenish yellow flowers emerge with the leaves. Male and female flowers occur on separate trees. Female trees bear two-winged fruits that mature from green to reddish-brown.

Box elders...

(Nikko Maple)

Lovely in all seasons, this deciduous maple from China and Japan offers a compact rounded habit, handsome foliage, brilliant fall color, and attractive bark. Its densely branched crown is set with lush, relatively large three-lobed leaves that emerge in mid-spring, about the same time as the ornamentally insignificant yellow flowers. Two-winged fruits follow the flowers, maturing from green to brown. The foliage turns yellow in fall, often combined with dazzling tones of red and orange. Smooth gray...

(Moosewood)

Although a rather scraggly plant in its native haunts in the forests of eastern North America, moosewood makes an attractive subject for lightly shaded garden sites. Typically forming a multi-trunked small tree or large shrub with beautiful green-barked branches, it bears large light- to medium-green leaves with three relatively shallow lobes. The leaves turn yellow in fall. Modestly attractive chains of small yellow flowers droop from the branches in spring, followed by two-winged fruits that mature...

(Norway Maple)

Norway maple is a popular, fast-growing, deciduous shade tree that is native to regions across Europe. These trees have dense rounded canopies and large leaves that are medium to dark green in the summer and turn pale yellow, yellow or yellow-green, rarely red, in the fall.

This tree is tolerant of a wide range of sites and conditions but does best in locations with full sun to part shade and well-drained, average soil. There are two caveats to planting a Norway maple; it tends to self-seed...

(Norway Maple)

Norway maple is a fast-growing deciduous shade tree native to Europe but naturalized in the United States and elsewhere. Somewhat more irregular and open in habit than the similar 'Globosum', 'Almira' has a low broad domed canopy and dark green, five- to seven-lobed leaves that turn pumpkin yellow in fall. The leaf stems exude a milky latex if severed. Clustered yellow-green flowers – which are more abundant and conspicuous than those of many maples – are followed by winged brown seeds ('Globosum'...