acer elegantulum Bonsai seed Elegant Maple

LATIN NAME: ACER ELEGANTULUM

COMMON NAME: Elegant Maple

The elegant maple plumes the small, deciduous tree with the slender, five-lobed leaves and the smooth, grey-brown bark, the delicate crown pluming the fine, airy foliage, the small, yellow-green flowers opening in the short clusters through the spring, the paired, winged keys following, the leaves turning the red and the orange through the autumn. The tree grows slowly into the compact, rounded form, and it stands the cold and the light shade well. It likes the sun or the light shade, and the moist, well-drained soil.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The fine, delicate foliage of the elegant maple gives it a recognised place in the research on the Chinese woodland maples of the great maple group, and the elegantulum species appears in the studies of the bonsai species and the compact trained forms. The work looks at the way the slender lobes plume the airy crown, the autumn pigments, and the seed biology. The horticulturists value the fine leaf, and the growers of the bonsai and small garden maples keep the species in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the small garden, the elegant maple plumes the small garden with the airy foliage. The red and orange leaves light the autumn, the fine crown suits the tub and the bonsai tray, and the tree makes the fine specimen. It grows well in the moist, well-drained, sunny or lightly shaded ground. Slender-lobed, airy and bonsai-ready.

To grow the Elegant Maple from seed, sow the winged seeds right after picking in autumn.

Sow the winged seeds right after picking in autumn, and give the young trees the open, sunny spot. The plume foliage comes through the autumn. , pressing them into shallow gritty drills, keep the drills cool and gently watered, and the young trees green up over the spring. The plume foliage will redden through the autumn.

Genus: Acer

Species: elegantulum

Common Name: Elegant maple

Other Names: acer elegantium

Pre-treatment: required

Zone Hardiness Cold: 5

Zone Hardiness warm: 8

Height / Spread: 6m/–

Plant Type: Large shrub/Small Tree

Growth rate: medium

Vegetation type: ornamental deciduous

Leaf /Flower color: Green/yellow

Very nice tree, can be grown as bonsai

It is a rare deciduous tree or shrub. This maple has deeply lobbed green to reddish leaves. The bark of the Elegant Maple is bright green.