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Plant: Inaba Shidare - Japanese Maple
Japanese Maple · Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Inaba Shidare'
Size: 15 gal
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More about this plant
Inaba Shidare is a dissectum or lace leaf Japanese maple with a strongly weeping habit, growing about 4 to 6 feet tall in its first ten years and eventually reaching 10 feet tall and 12 feet or more wide. Its palmate, seven lobed leaves are deeply cut and dissected, to 6 inches long, emerging deep purple, holding a rich purple red through summer without going bronze, then turning bright red in fall. It is noted as a heat and scorch resistant lace leaf, which matters in warmer or windier climates, and it prefers a moist, well drained soil with shelter from hot afternoon sun. Use it as a cascading accent or specimen at a bed edge, patio or woodland edge.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 10 ft tall and 12 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Inaba Shidare is a dissectum or lace leaf Japanese maple with a strongly weeping habit, growing about 4 to 6 feet tall in its first ten years and eventually reaching 10 feet tall and 12 feet or more wide. Its palmate, seven lobed leaves are deeply cut and dissected, to 6 inches long, emerging deep purple, holding a rich purple red through summer without going bronze, then turning bright red in fall. It is noted as a heat and scorch resistant lace leaf, which matters in warmer or windier climates, and it prefers a moist, well drained soil with shelter from hot afternoon sun. Use it as a cascading accent or specimen at a bed edge, patio or woodland edge.
- Flowers
- Small red to purple flowers appear in spring; attractive viewed closely but insignificant from a distance.
- Foliage
- Palmate, seven lobed, deeply cut and dissected leaves to 6 inches long, emerging deep purple, maturing purple red through summer without going bronze, and turning bright red 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
- Morning Sun, Dappled/Filtered Light
- Native range
- Japan, China, Korea, eastern Mongolia and southeastern Russia
