beni kagami? hard to find information about

[WIlliam_Butler_Yeets]

so i picked up my first acer palmatums today on a bit of an impulse (don't worry, they were quite cheap for bonsai) and the tag says the variety is "beni kagami", searching this online gives a lot of listings for niwaki trees but very little about their use in bonsai, there's two of them in the pot, the tag says "seedling" but i assume they're actually rooted cuttings

i'm not sure the name of the person who makes bonsai for the nursery i got it from, but i figure if they're a bonsai person with enough practice to be retailing trees, they know the difference between cultivars and seedlings, probably just written on the tag to indicate they're young

so, anybody got any info on them? ever seen them before? never heard of such a thing? did i waste fifty bucks?

 

[houterig]

They look nice.

Some more info here:
https://esveld.nl/htmldiaen/a/acpbka.htm

Depending on what you want, I would grow them bigger in the ground first, leave size seems good to me. Also I see no graft, wich is nice.

 

[Juanmi]

Beni (紅) means reddish or something like that in japanese, so you know that the leaves will be red.

Out of curiosity I put ベニカガミ on my search engine.

モミジ：紅鏡（ベニカガミ）4号ポット

モミジ：紅鏡（ベニカガミ）4号ポット の商品詳細。 濃赤色の出芽、夏は緑葉で秋に鮮赤色に紅葉するもみじ。 品種:モミジ。カテゴリ:花木 庭木の苗:モミジ（紅葉） カエデ（楓）。 『園芸ネット』は植物とガーデニングの通販サイト。花や観葉植物、野菜、ハーブの種苗から園芸用品まで豊富な品揃え。

www.engei.net

You can translate that on your browser or try with other searches.

 

[WIlliam_Butler_Yeets]

They look nice.

Some more info here:
https://esveld.nl/htmldiaen/a/acpbka.htm

Depending on what you want, I would grow them bigger in the ground first, leave size seems good to me. Also I see no graft, wich is nice.

yes, I didn't see any evidence of a graft, either

they are certainly pleasant looking, might put one in the ground and keep the other in pots as a neat little experiment