Show your 2024 maple colors!

[CapeCodBonsai]

It's beautiful! But I've never seen Shihigashira with spring color like that. How certain are you that it's Shihigashira?

Dan W. totally called it! I saw the dense & compact growth and assumed it was the newer Shishigashira that I bought from Conifer Kingdom last year. When I got home, I decided to give it a second look (before I shot off a response). Sure enough, it’s not a Shishigashira. It’s one of the “dwarf cultivar” seedlings that William Valavanis was selling back in 2021 that set off this thread . . .
Thread 'Bill Valvanis "Dwarf Japanese maple" - any idea what cultivar?'
Good catch Dan! You definitely know your Shishi-foliage.

 

[19Mateo83]

Dan W. totally called it! I saw the dense & compact growth and assumed it was the newer Shishigashira that I bought from Conifer Kingdom last year. When I got home, I decided to give it a second look (before I shot off a response). Sure enough, it’s not a Shishigashira. It’s one of the “dwarf cultivar” seedlings that William Valavanis was selling back in 2021 that set off this thread . . .
Thread 'Bill Valvanis "Dwarf Japanese maple" - any idea what cultivar?'
Good catch Dan! You definitely know your Shishi-foliage.

I wanted to reply to that thread and it’s closed… Just for everyone’s reference, this is what a official koto hime purchased from Bill Valavanis himself looks like

Acer palmatum 'Shishigashira'​

We're pretty slow to warm up on Cape Cod so, things are only just now beginning to move.
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Could this be “Kurenai jishi”. The red version of a shishigashira

Acer palmatum 'Kurenai jishi' Red Lion Japanese Maple

Zones 5-9 Buy Kurenai jishi red lion Japanese maple trees online mail-order. Kurenai jishi is a beautiful red lions head dwarf Japanese maple. A purchase of a Kureani jishi miniature Japanese maple is a true investment in your yard! Acer palmatum 'Kurenai jishi' is the red shishigashira Japanese...

mrmaple.com

 

[CapeCodBonsai]

I wanted to reply to that thread and it’s closed… Just for everyone’s reference, this is what a official koto hime purchased from Bill Valavanis himself looks like
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Could this be “Kurenai jishi”. The red version of a shishigashira

Acer palmatum 'Kurenai jishi' Red Lion Japanese Maple

Zones 5-9 Buy Kurenai jishi red lion Japanese maple trees online mail-order. Kurenai jishi is a beautiful red lions head dwarf Japanese maple. A purchase of a Kureani jishi miniature Japanese maple is a true investment in your yard! Acer palmatum 'Kurenai jishi' is the red shishigashira Japanese...

mrmaple.com

I’m going with the official response I received from both Diane AND from Bill when I called them directly to ask which cultivar they had just sold me. Both times the response was, “It’s an unnamed cultivar”.
Personally, I took their response(s) to mean that the seedlings were grown from the seeds of a dwarf variety of Acer palmatum but, since they were grown from seed, they could not be called the actual parental cultivar . . . no matter what it was.

 

[Headhunter843]

hold my beer....

Shishigashira 1

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Shishigashira 2 and ¿kotohime?
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Arakawa
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Buergerianum
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And at last, but not least...shindeshojo
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Bonus track; a video

Cheers and enjoy the spring!!

I'm stuck somewhere between inspiration and deflation! Great job!

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Ladies and Gentleman prepare to be underwhelmed, and see noob leaves you've seen before. Just wanted to post before this thread closes, and everyone else is light years ahead.






These two isn't open yet.

 

[raffaelbaer]

JM Orange Dream, pictures are appart 5 days!

 

[dbonsaiw]

Mikawa yatsuba

 

[Johnnyd]

Moonrise
Beni Maiko

Deshojo

 

[kiwimaple]

Plain palmatum seedlings boast thier own autumn colours

 

[Dav4]

 

[dbonsaiw]

So much nice stuff here - so I'll throw in the most pathetic coral bark on earth. This one appears to be in its last legs and I will try to layer off the one living branch. I was going to post this in “show us you maple literatis “ but figured that was a little too tongue in cheek. Hey, at least this has some nice colors.

 

[NateDyk47]

So much nice stuff here - so I'll throw in the most pathetic coral bark on earth. This one appears to be in its last legs and I will try to layer off the one living branch. I was going to post this in “show us you maple literatis “ but figured that was a little too tongue in cheek. Hey, at least this has some nice colors.

I have a Sango kaku that had severe dieback similar to this one. I chopped it low and it's doing well now. However, all the black area on the trunk was above where I cut... not sure if that's a death knell.

 

[Wulfskaar]

Whoops!

 

[Fishsauce]

 

[NateDyk47]

Acer palmatum 'Ao kanzashi'

 

[NateDyk47]

Shishigashira

 

[Ininaatigoons]

Forever jealous of those in warmer climates. I figure you get at least 2 months more grow time than me. But, I get a longer winter break if that's a consolation. My trees are just about to pop and I am hopefully getting close to having all the root work done for the year.

 

[NateDyk47]

Acer palmatum small leaf dwarf seedling, from Evergreen Gardenworks.

 

[Marco B]

seeded 24 years ago...

 

[Ininaatigoons]

Acer palmatum small leaf dwarf seedling, from Evergreen Gardenworks.


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Love it! I bought the same a couple years ago. Grew it and layered the top last year. Good stuff. One of the best!