Acer palmatum Japanese Maple

Common questions

Who grows Acer palmatum Japanese Maple wholesale in Australia?

38 wholesale growers list Acer palmatum Japanese Maple on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, the ACT, Western Australia and South Australia. The growers are named on this page.

What pot sizes does Acer palmatum Japanese Maple come in?

Growers on HortOS list Acer palmatum Japanese Maple in Tube, 90mm, 140mm, 200mm, 250mm, 300mm, 330mm, 400mm, 500mm, 600mm and 13 more sizes.

What does Acer palmatum Japanese Maple cost wholesale?

The median trade price in a 400 mm pot is $147.00 ex GST, across 12 growers who price it. Prices by pot size and state are on its trade price page.

How do I order Acer palmatum Japanese Maple from these growers?

HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.

Is Japanese maple on a list the same as Acer palmatum?

Yes. A listing of Japanese maple with no cultivar name is the species, Acer palmatum Thunb., the name the Australian Plant Census accepts. Named forms such as Bloodgood or Sango Kaku carry their cultivar names.

How big does a Japanese maple grow?

The Missouri Plant Finder gives 3 to 7.5 m, infrequently to 12 m, and the North Carolina toolbox 4.5 to 7.5 m high and 3 to 7.5 m wide. The toolbox's description calls growth slow to moderate; its trait list says slow.

Does a Japanese maple need shade?

The North Carolina toolbox plants it in dappled shade. The Missouri Plant Finder allows full sun where summers are mild and asks for some afternoon shade where they are hot, and both say the leaves scorch when sun, wind or dry soil are too much.

Is Japanese maple drought tolerant?

Not by the North Carolina toolbox's description, which says it is not, although the same page's attribute list ticks drought. The Missouri Plant Finder asks for a soil kept consistently moist under mulch. No Australian reference read rates it.

When do you prune a Japanese maple?

As little as possible, the Missouri Plant Finder says. Where a cut is needed, make it between late autumn and mid winter, because spring or summer cuts often bleed heavily.

What colour does a Japanese maple turn in autumn?

Yellow, bronze, purple or red by the North Carolina toolbox, the colour varying with the cultivar; the Missouri Plant Finder gives the species shades of yellow, red-purple and bronze.

Is Japanese maple naturalised in Australia?

The Australian Plant Census records it only as doubtfully naturalised, in Victoria, so HortOS gives it as an exotic. Of the records the Atlas of Living Australia flags, all but one are marked introduced. The toolbox's line that it self-seeds and can become weedy is about the United States.

What do the flowers and seeds look like?

Small reddish-purple flowers in umbels in mid spring, attractive close up but not showy from a distance, the Missouri Plant Finder says. Paired winged seeds to about 2 cm follow and ripen in autumn; the toolbox says the wings curve in to an arch and turn reddish.