Description
Delightful deciduous Maple rarely seen here … Foliage is mid green, with interesting lobed leaves ... New foliage is purple to red becoming blue-green in summer ... Bark is greyish green tones and rough in appearance ... Leaves turns a brilliant scarlet in the autumn ... Introduced here by Arnold Teese a rare maple species of some variability, not entirely unusual in many wild plant Species … Endemic southeast and south-central China … A small garden tree maple 3-5 metres & rarely reaching 15 metres with age in nature , preferring forested valleys 500 to 2500 metres above sea level in its native environment … Blooming appears as a compound corymbose panicle, with 60 to 70 flowers together … Family:
Sapindaceae