Bought as a Standard Green AP - Is it?

[Firstflush]

This was a beater from a local nursery. Here in socal almost all the JM cultivars are grafted to standard green AP root stock. I saw this was not grafted and was one of the smaller ones they had. Looked beat up like a potential return.

This is the first flush of growth. Do you think it is a std. green AP still?

 

[NOZZLE HEAD]

It looks like a lot of the seedling A.p. I have collected from landscapes and the like.

There is considerable variation in leaf color and how deeply dissected and palmate the leaf shape is in my collection.

I dug a grafted one from a landscape this winter that I chopped below the graft in the spring of 2020, and it has similar leaves.

 

[Pitoon]

This was a beater from a local nursery. Here in socal almost all the JM cultivars are grafted to standard green AP root stock. I saw this was not grafted and was one of the smaller ones they had. Looked beat up like a potential return.

This is the first flush of growth. Do you think it is a std. green AP still?

If it's not grafted you could be safe to say it's a normal green JM.

 

[Shibui]

Root stock for JM is just seedlings. They can be green leaf JM or occasionally red leaf JM. I get all sorts from the seed I grow here and so do the commercial propagators who produce the JM root stock plants for grafting.
If it does n ot have a label for provenance it is just Japanese maple. If it has some nice characteristics enjoy it for what it is - a new and unique JM individual.