(Aceraceae)
Acer pectinatum   GWJ9354

Description

An exceptionally rare and highly ornamental shrubby tree, which has always been considered to be tender, until this collection proved to the contrary, flourishing in our exposed field from young 2002 seedlings. Where they have formed conspicuously colourful multi stemmed shrubs with young wood emerging a bright red slowly ageing green with distinctive white striation (snakebark). The red emerging thick textured almost leathery leaves are shallowly tri-lobed to inconspicuously 5-lobed, with the central lobe much longer, while the juvenile leaves have additional small basal lobes. From one of our seed collections from a remote corner of Sikkim at almost 3,000m, in the Lachung Valley. Easily grown in a fertile moisture retentive soil (usually chalk free) in part shade to sun, best sheltered from cold drying winds.

******************************As we have sold out of all our containerised stock of this plant, these plants are supplied as open ground/bare-rooted plants, the pot size given is for the purpose of calculating carriage only.

Pot Size

20 litre deep

Price

£40.00 From our mailorder website