Pls ID Kev’s JM

[It's Kev]

I got this over a year ago and never bothered with ID, but some days the curiosity gets the better of me, anyone know what this is?


Was gonna air layer the top 3 branches this year but never got around to it. I’m always away from home and when I’m back the tree is in recovery mode because of heat.

 

[Shibui]

No problem Its a Japanese maple. I can even go as far as to say it is a red leaf Japanese maple but there are hundreds of named varieties and many are very similar so it is not possible to say it is one cultivar or another.

If it was seed grown it is, by definition, a new individual so can't be any of the existing named cultivar. Do you know anything of its origins? - seedling, cutting, layer? With the very low extra trunk/branch and thick, straight trunks I suspect it is a layer off a larger tree so could very well be one of the existing recognized cultivars but if you don't know which cultivar it was layered from there's still no way to Id just from the appearance.

 

[It's Kev]

No problem Its a Japanese maple. I can even go as far as to say it is a red leaf Japanese maple but there are hundreds of named varieties and many are very similar so it is not possible to say it is one cultivar or another.

If it was seed grown it is, by definition, a new individual so can't be any of the existing named cultivar. Do you know anything of its origins? - seedling, cutting, layer? With the very low extra trunk/branch and thick, straight trunks I suspect it is a layer off a larger tree so could very well be one of the existing recognized cultivars but if you don't know which cultivar it was layered from there's still no way to Id just from the appearance.

its grafted onto some other rootstock, hasn't made any suckers. Before the sun destroyed it, the leaves were light green with brown edges, not the sunburned crispy brown, some naturally occurring colour, i'll take another pic when the new foliage turns to that

 

[Srt8madness]

Still won't be able to say. Once the name is lost its lost for good. Doesn't make the tree any less great!