Maple Japanese Katsura #1

Katsura Japanese Maple is primarily valued in the landscape for its ornamental upright and spreading habit of growth. It features subtle corymbs of red flowers rising above the foliage in mid spring before the leaves. It has attractive chartreuse deciduous foliage which emerges yellow in spring. The lobed palmate leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding orange in the fall. The rough gray bark and deep purple branches are extremely showy and add significant winter interest.

It is an open deciduous tree with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage. This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and should only be pruned in summer after the leaves have fully developed, as it may ‘bleed’ sap if pruned in late winter or early spring.