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Plant: Bihou - Japanese Maple
Japanese Maple · Acer palmatum 'Bihou'
Size: 5 gal
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Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
A Japanese maple grown above all for its bark, which is a vivid golden peach coral that turns orange to apricot yellow and glows through the winter, with the newest twigs a darker coral. It makes an upright, narrow branched small tree of roughly 8 to 15 feet tall and 4 to 10 feet wide. Leaves emerge light yellow green flushed with pink, settle to green for summer, and finish bright yellow often with red tones. The Japanese name means beautiful mountain range. It takes sun through mostly shade with even moisture in average, rich, well drained soil, tolerates humidity, and attracts beneficial insects and birds. Young trees are more frost sensitive than mature ones. It is also recommended for bonsai.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 15 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A Japanese maple grown above all for its bark, which is a vivid golden peach coral that turns orange to apricot yellow and glows through the winter, with the newest twigs a darker coral. It makes an upright, narrow branched small tree of roughly 8 to 15 feet tall and 4 to 10 feet wide. Leaves emerge light yellow green flushed with pink, settle to green for summer, and finish bright yellow often with red tones. The Japanese name means beautiful mountain range. It takes sun through mostly shade with even moisture in average, rich, well drained soil, tolerates humidity, and attracts beneficial insects and birds. Young trees are more frost sensitive than mature ones. It is also recommended for bonsai.
- Flowers
- Small red to purple flowers, attractive up close but insignificant from a distance.
- Foliage
- Simple, opposite leaves with 5 to 9 lobes, most of them deep.
- Fruit
- Paired samaras with wings that curve into an arch and turn reddish, showing in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Vivid golden peach coral bark that turns orange to apricot yellow and glows through the winter, with the newest twigs a darker coral tone.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Native range
- Asia: Japan, China, Korea, eastern Mongolia, southeastern Russia
