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Back to Maple Home Which cultivars customers do and don't purchase is interesting and sometimes baffling. In some years, some of the trees listed below would be long gone by now. This year, some previously unnoticed ones sold out instead. So we thought we'd bring a few to your attention, in addition to featuring some that did sell out this year, but are now back in stock because we were able to buy them from other growers. Even though we had a disastrous grafting year (again) and even though many cultivars are sold out, there are still lots of interesting, unusual, and beautiful trees waiting for a good home. (Update: We've just added a couple of new cultivars: the red/green variegate 'Itami nishiki', and the red strapleaf 'Red Cloud'.

Laceleafs (Dissectums), weeping, mounding, mushroom-shaped shrubs.	Baby Lace Among the smallest, finest-leaved, and most delicate of the dissectums. Red with some green. Bonsai.	Otto's A green dissectum with bronze tones, giving it a unique color.	Lion Heart A red laceleaf that is semi-upright, rather than mounding.

Dwarfs 3-6 feet	Ryuzu Dense 6' dwarf with bronze, then deep green leaves.	Sharp's Pygmy Tiny, compact green dwarf, deep red in fall. Bonsai	~~Shishiohime~~ ~~Very slow-growing ball-shaped dwarf, bright new growth against deep green background. Bons~~ai.

Shindeshojo Types Bright pink spring leaves.	Otome zakura To 8', with bright new growth and 2 kinds of leaves.	Corallinum To 8', very showy in spring.	Beni maiko Larger than the others, to 15' and as wide as tall.

Variegates Multi-colored, variable, mainly with promenent veins.	Elmwood Dark wood-colored leaves with lighter variegation. To 10 ft'.	Tiger Rose Rose overlay on green/white variegation in spring. 6-10 ft.	Ariadne More and longer-lasting red overlay than others of the type.
	Will D Coppery new growth, strong venation on a pendulous shrub.	Itami nishiki (Itami nibluki) Bright green leaves with red edges, purple stems. New.	Koshibori nishiki Different kind of variegation, not reticulated.

Semi-dwarfs 6-15 feet	Tsuma gaki Red-tipped 'painted fingernails' on deep green leaves. 6-10'	Utsu semi If a tree can look sturdy, yet delicate, this does. Green, 10x10'	Red Cloud Spreading red strapleaf with good color retention.

Special Color	Uneo yama Orange spring leaves brighter than other orange cultivars. 10-15'.	Kinran Purple, orange, salmon & green combine to good effect, then crimson & gold in fall.	Chitoseyama Olive green, tan, and rust on a 10' shrub'

	Ryu sen Radically weeping green form that could be a groundcover if untrained.	Kinshi Green threadleaf similar to Koto no ito, with the advantage that it's not sold out.	Okushimo Inwardly-curled green leaves looking like birds' feet.
Special form	Beni shien Subtly red-on-red variegated, good for hot, humid climates	Shigure bato Finely-cut green leaves like a dissectum, but not weeping.	Vitifolium Large, grape-like leaves with excellent fall color, on a 30' tree. Hardier than palmatums.
	Otaki Rather narrowly upright Acer japonicum to just 12-15', good spring and fall color. Hardier than palmatums.	Fairy Lights Very dissected Acer japonicum to just 5', green with intense scarlet fall color. Hardier than palmatums	6910 Leaf similar to 'Aureum', but only a little gold. 15-20'. Hardier than palmatums.