Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) as Propagation Material

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Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) as Propagation Material

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Tags: Japanese Maple , Acer palmatum , propagation material , seed , air-layering , grafting , potted seedling

Family: Sapindaceae (includes maples, lychee, and horse chestnut)
Genus: Acer (the maples)

Botanical/Binomial Name: Acer palmatum
Meaning of Name:
Acer, from Latin acer (‘maple tree’); and
palmatum, from Latin palmātum (neuter singular of palmātus, ‘hand-shaped’, ‘palm-leaf shaped’)

Common Names: Japanese Maple

Item Description:
PROPAGATION MATERIAL PROVIDED ON REQUEST
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) can be purchased here if in stock.

The price listed here for propagation material is an indication only. The actual price may vary depending on your requirements. I am most happy to discuss your needs with you, and supply accordingly.

Plant Description:
The Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) is a beautiful tree well-suited for both bonsai and as a landscape tree.

Unfortunately it has a very low strike-rate from cuttings, and is best propagated from seed or by air-layering or grafting. This species is naturally of high genetic variability and growing from seed will not be true-to-type. This can be a disadvantage or an advantage depending on the mother tree and your intent — some truly spectacular cultivars may throw seed with some or many of the traits of the cultivar, but many are just as likely to throw the more oridnary wild-type, or be outright infertile.

Air-layering and grafting on the other hand will guarantee a clone of the exact tree you are after.

Growing Information:
Japanese maples grow well in a pot or the ground, and can handle from full sun to shade, though their native habitat is as understorey trees in shady woodland.

These trees grow well all over Australia, including more dry regions providing they have enough water. They are frost hardy temperate trees, and will survive winters colder than is typical of most places in Australia. I would not recommened these for tropical regions as they would not get strong enough signals to trigger winter dormancy.

Acer palmatum makes both a stunning bonsai as well as a striking landscape tree. The autumn colours of its leaves are stunning as it prepares to enter winter dormancy.

Local pick-up is welcome — we’re in Gwynneville, near Wollongong University.
Pick-up is by mutual arrangement please, as we don’t have a shopfront.

Having said that, we are always here and more often than not can easily fit in with whichever day and time suits you best!
Feel free to suggest preferred pick-up time(s) in the comments box during checkout and we’ll reply as soon as we see the notification.

Especial Note Regarding Large Air-Pot® Orders
Depending on the order, we may suggest that large Air-Pot® orders are best sent directly to you from the warehouse.

Especial Note Regarding Jujube Trees
When posting out bare-rooted jujube trees, we routinely trim them to fit the box and keep postage costs to a minimum. These trees are typically knee-high when planted out, though some may be smaller.

This of course doesn’t apply for pick-ups, and in fact we will set aside the tallest trees specifically for this purpose. These trees can often be hip-high, and sometimes taller again.
Please note that this is not a guarantee, as heights of different cultivars can differ from year to year.

Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) as Propagation Material

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