Acer pentaphyllum - Five-lobed Maple flowering rough bark

rough bark

Depending on the severity of the winters it might be cut back by frost

Best grown in full sun to part shade

up to 30cm long that turn a nice yellow bronze in autumn

it is best grown in moist

Acer pentaphyllum - Five-lobed Maple flowering rough barkOne of the rarest maples in the wild known only from a very small and threatened population which was recently rediscovered following its introduction to cultivation in the 1930's from a scarce handful of seed. It is deciduous with deeply cut 5 lobed leaves that are very unmaple like. This delicate tree, nearly extinct in the wild and unsurprisingly it is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN