Excellent for streets and parks in urban and industrial areas
before the foliage
slow-growing Japanese maple with bushy upright habit and peculiar foliage
It is self-sterile and needs to be grown with a pollination partner
is an excellent ground cover
Acer palmatum 'Inaba-shidare' (Japanese maple) - 33lt Phormium Excellent for streets and parksAcer palmatum 'Inaba shidare' is a vigorous, slow growing deciduous shrub with a pendulous, weeping habit. Feathery, deeply dissected, lobed, dark purple leaves, become crimson red in autumn. Its inconspicuous, purple red flowers bloom in April and May and are followed by winged nuts. It can grow in every soil type, except chalk. Thrives best in moist, well drained, slightly acidic soils. Although it prefers partial shade, it tolerates full sun very