Oh man that’s awesome ! What a steal! I bought a few maples from him that he had lost the tags to, I think I paid 10$ per maple. Both very beautiful. One was in a two gallon container and one was in a smaller pot. I figured the one in the smaller pot was a grafted cultivar, but as I got to looking at it when I got home , for sure not grafted.
I believe it’s a seedling or cutting off some cultivar with small leaves.Best guess I have is a cutting from a A.P. ‘ Catalina Yatsabusa’. Maybeit is a seedling , if you bought a funky seed grown maple from him… shoot- I bought a funky variegated Chinese elm from him too. He didn’t know the cultivar name from that either but it’s got strong variegation. I’ll post some pics. But ya I really enjoyed BSin trees and maples with him, he seemed like a good guy.
The 1st 3 pics are of the one i assumed was ‘Catalina Yatsabusa’ and the 4th +5th is an unlabeled graft. Both for 10$!