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Plant: Bloodgood - Japanese Maple
Japanese Maple · Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood'
Size: 5 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
Bloodgood is a dense, erect, rounded Japanese maple that matures at about 15 to 20 feet tall and 12 to 20 feet wide, often multi trunked. Its palmately lobed leaves, 3 to 6 inches across, hold deep purple red colour through the season and finish red burgundy in fall, carried on dark brown to reddish bark. It is slow growing and low maintenance, preferring dappled sunlight to partial shade and a moist, well drained soil of clay, loam or sand rich in organic matter, in an acid to neutral range. Small red spring flowers are insignificant and are followed by reddish samaras. Watch for aphids, scale, borers, leaf scorch and verticillium wilt. Use it as a small shade tree, specimen or understory tree, in a container or beside a patio or walkway.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 20 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Bloodgood is a dense, erect, rounded Japanese maple that matures at about 15 to 20 feet tall and 12 to 20 feet wide, often multi trunked. Its palmately lobed leaves, 3 to 6 inches across, hold deep purple red colour through the season and finish red burgundy in fall, carried on dark brown to reddish bark. It is slow growing and low maintenance, preferring dappled sunlight to partial shade and a moist, well drained soil of clay, loam or sand rich in organic matter, in an acid to neutral range. Small red spring flowers are insignificant and are followed by reddish samaras. Watch for aphids, scale, borers, leaf scorch and verticillium wilt. Use it as a small shade tree, specimen or understory tree, in a container or beside a patio or walkway.
- Flowers
- Small red to purple flowers appear in spring; attractive viewed closely but insignificant from a distance.
- Foliage
- Palmately lobed leaves 3 to 6 inches across, deep purple red through the growing season and turning red burgundy in fall.
- Fruit
- A schizocarp of two samaras with incurved wings forming an arch, becoming reddish in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Young stems vary from green to polished reddish brown; older branches assume a gray cast.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Pruning
- Prune in February while dormant if you want to change its shape.
- Native range
- Japan, China, Korea, eastern Mongolia and southeastern Russia
