Acer carpinifolium

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Apr 22, 2006

One for Scott, since he's provided so many...

Haven't got a camera with macro or whatever, but these show pert near enough.

Here you go: combining characters of two of your favorites, in one plant.

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Apr 22, 2006

These start seeming so bird-like...

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Apr 22, 2006

And here's a whole flock...

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kandlmidd Presque Isle, WI(Zone 3b) Apr 22, 2006

Nice job, John, I espically liked how, in the second shot , you painstakinly tied everything together with that microfilament fishing line. :>} Ken

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Apr 22, 2006

Ken:

Cat hair. Quercus is now fuming for not getting top billing.

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StarhillForest Illinois, IL(Zone 5b) Apr 23, 2006

I have a small one ready for outplanting this year. What do y'all suggest for habitat/location? I'm thinking north-slope understory among some of our snakebarks, but I know little about this species and its requirements.

Guy S.

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Decumbent Cincinnati, OH(Zone 6b) Apr 23, 2006

VV, I have planted one of these for a client, and so I get to observe it regularly. I have also seen it at various arboretums, most recently at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle a few years ago. And, yes, this is the perfect marriage of my two loves, small Asian maples and hornbeams! I really ought to buy one for myself.

Guy, I haven't seen this tree enough to discern any pattern to how it has been grown. I planted the one for my client in part-sun on the edge of a woods. I suspect your instincts for cool understory is about right.

As categorized in my maple references, Acer carpinifolium is always by itself. I tend to think of it as more like the trifoliate group or maybe A. truncatum than in the snakebark or palmatum group. I don't know why. I just do. The one I planted is growing very slowly, but seems like it wants to spread out, which is how the WPA tree was behaving.

Scott

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