Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
Ok, I'll call your bluff. Here ya go... a Japanese maple cultivar I bought two days ago. As you can see, it still has its nursery tag. I'll even give you TEN guesses. Let us know what cultivar it is.
Bill Valvanis "Dwarf Japanese maple" - any idea what cultivar?
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Ok, I'll call your bluff. Here ya go... a Japanese maple cultivar I bought two days ago. As you can see, it still has its nursery tag. I'll even give you TEN guesses. Let us know what cultivar it is.
A. Gorilla
Omono
Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
Why don't you post all ten guesses and then I'll post a photo of the nursery tag (your first guess was wrong).
LanceMac10
Imperial Masterpiece
Does it start with a T? 
Tough to tell from just summer coloring. Fall color can help ID, but at the end of the day I tend to just call 'em a Japanese Maple and move on.
Not too sure even nurseries are 100% accurate......
Tough to tell from just summer coloring. Fall color can help ID, but at the end of the day I tend to just call 'em a Japanese Maple and move on.
Not too sure even nurseries are 100% accurate......
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
That is absurd. It is unlikely that even Vertrees could have had a success rate that high.
There are maybe a thousand cultivars and it is quite possible that one has been registered since this post started.
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
That is a given.
A. Gorilla
Omono
I suspect you need cultivate your base of cultivar knowledge.
1,000 is a very manageable number.
A. Gorilla
Omono
-Wa totemo
-Futotte imasu
-Watashi wa
-Watashi no
-Kuruma no naka
-De kanojo o
-Koishiku
-Omou yō
-Ni magari
-Gasu o
-Tsukaihatashimashita
Nybonsai12
Masterpiece
Im curious as to what it is labeled. beni kawa?
Mikecheck123
Omono
LMAO!! Has anyone ever tried to die on a hill that was so small (and fragile)?
This is the Preface to the First Edition, written by Vertrees himself:
Mikecheck123
Omono
DAMN! He's going for it!!
Mikecheck123
Omono
Here are 7 guesses.
aratama
iso chidori
ogi-no-nagarae
oto hime
sekka yatsubusa
tama hime
tattoo
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
I don't Need to do anything but enjoy my Japanese Maples. If 50 cultivars and a couple hundred seedlings is what makes me happy, so be it. I certainly will never find a need to manage 1,000 cultivars to the exclusion of all my other interests. I Know I cannot manage 1,000 cultivars and if you can, I suppose I should either bow down to you or ignore you.
A. Gorilla
Omono
I have very specific ideas about what should, and should not, make you happy.
coh
Imperial Masterpiece
Rarely are we presented with such simple and obvious choices!
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
Its Greek to me.
A. Gorilla
Omono
amcoffeegirl
Masterpiece
Is it fireglow?
amcoffeegirl
Masterpiece
Which maple is this?
Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
You get bonus points for very interesting cultivars. However I think you are going to be underwhelmed with the name...
I will be writing up a review of the nursery shortly - I am going back either Friday or Saturday of this week. J & G's Japanese Maple Nursery in Woodleaf, NC. He gets his maples from wholesalers in Oregon. I bought five trees that appealed to me, and the sixth was "nursery choice". I asked him to pick out a cultivar for me that he thought was really interesting. The only limit was I didn't want a variegate. He picked out this tree because of the red branches and the red veins in the leaves and he said it isn't broadly available.
And that's all I know about it
However my point was simply... even when you KNOW it is a cultivar, determining which one is nearly impossible. I see some big red Japanese maples in my neighborhood and think they are probably all bloodgoods... because it is the most popular JM cultivar sold, and the trees fit the description as a large, palmate leafed, red JM. However even if I might be pretty sure... I'm not certain. I don't know how you ever could be - just from appearance.
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