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Amur maple

Acer ginnala
Key features
Some trees are outstanding in one aspect of ∙Excelling for just two or three
bonsai but not so good in others, and this is weeks a year with lovely fall
foliage, in time the Amur maple
one of them. The undoubted star feature is its
also develops a full-of-character
incredible fall color but it has slightly larger trunk to admire year-round.
leaves and a less attractive growth habit than
∙It has no special growing
its more popular relatives, A. palmatum and
requirements. Cultivate it the
A. buergerianum. It is much more difficult to same way as you would A.
encourage it to grow into a dense, well-branched palmatum (see p.74).
tree, so it will always look less attractive in winter ∙The lack of adventitious buds is
than its cousins. But that does not mean that we what makes it hard to grow this
cannot appreciate it for what it does offer. maple into an interesting shape.

Looking closer
Top: The tips of the
branches tend to be slightly
leggy and coarse.
Slightly large Center: After many years of
leaves and cultivation in a pot, the trunk
coarse tertiary
branches develops a subtle gray color
with attractive striations.
Trunk develops
character with age Below: Its fall foliage is what
Intense yellow, orange, makes this tree special.
and red foliage in the
The nebari spreads
widely across the fall is the highlight of
surface this species

Move it out of
its training pot
when a dense,
16in / 40cm tall compact root
Courtesy of Mike Rose system has
developed