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| Hi all --
Saw this beautiful Japanese maple at the Biltmore Estate gardens in North Carolina last week, and thought something like this would look great in our yard (after 50 years or so!). Anyway, in my ignorance I didn't realize there were so many varieties until I got home and started researching, and should have taken a close-up photo of the leaves. They were small and thin, although I don't believe they were "weeping" like the laceleaf type. Not sure if the size of the leaf was a result of the heavy pruning, or if it is simply varietal. Brick red in color. The tree itself is perhaps 7-8 feet tall, with a spread of fifteen feet. I realize this is a bit large to qualify as a "bonsai", but since Japanese maples are so often used for this I thought this Forum would be a good place to start. See the link below for a list of some of the varieties I found -- holy cow. Any ideas? Thanks! Bruce C.
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Here is a link that might be useful: Sooner Farm Japanese red maples
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| Hi, very interesting tree! I would e-mail them (Sooner) a picture and ask them what it is because a) the shape of it has been trained in over many years and tells you nothing about the variety, and b) even with a close-up picture of a leaf (which is really the only thing that would help anyway), it still might be hard as you've acknowledged, as there are hundreds of Japanese maples, loads of them looking alike, and even an expert might have trouble. Also, many have been mixed and matched genetically over time so whether or not any one is even not-a-graft or an original species is impossible to tell sometimes unless you actually know. |
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| Thank you, Lucy, for your thoughts. I'll try e-mailing them. Never tried a large bonsai before -- looks like quite a project! Bruce C. |
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