Acer japonicum · Kew POWO · Kew Plants of the World Online
Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSapindales
- FamilySapindaceae
Native toJapan, Kuril Is.
Observations recorded7,974
Common Name: meigetsu kaede
via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 623
- With media
- 522
- Family
- Sapindaceae
- Collections
- NY, CLEMS, CHSC, BRIT, MICH, CM
- Recorded in
- United States, Japan
Wikidata facts
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- Acer japonicum
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- Acer japonicum
- has fruit type
- samara
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon common name
- japonski javor
- short name
- A. japonicum
- taxon author citation
- Thunb.
- foliage type
- deciduous plant
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Encyclopedic overview
This roughly 50-year-old Acer japonicum cultivar is only about 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall, but has the branching structure of a large tree.
Acer japonicum, fullmoon maple, or downy Japanese-maple (Japanese: はうちは楓, romanized: hauchiwakaede), is a species of maple native to Japan, on Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū (Nagasaki Prefecture), and also southern Korea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Acer japonicum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.