To help the tree establish more effectively, sprinkle root grow in the hole. Dig a square hole as deep as the root mass and roughly 2x as wide. Prepare your planting site by removing weeds and grass within a metre of your desired planting hole. Our pot grown Paper Bark Maple trees can be planted at any time of the year. The tree in Westonbirt Arboretum is believed to be a Wilson original. Interesting fact: E H Wilson brought Acer griseum to England from China in 1901. It will do well in most well drained soils, but do avoid a very exposed position. Acer griseum has the RHS Award of Garden Merit and will grow in both sunny or partially shaded locations. The slow growing nature and year round interest makes it a great choice for smaller gardens. This small Acer tree will reach a height and spread of 5 x 4 metres in 20 year. The attractive foliage has three leaflets and is a good bold green, turning a firework display of colours from pink to bright red before falling in the autumn. Flowers are small but followed by winged seeds often referred to as 'helicopters' due to the way they spin when falling. Translucent sections of the paper-thin, peeling bark curl ornately whilst still attached to the tree, giving year-round interest but especially in winter. If you are in doubt, look at the bark of the tree to make a positive identification.Acer griseum boasts tactile, cinnamon coloured, peeling bark, hence the common name of Paper Bark Maple. In most cases, the leaves will be enough to help you determine what kind of maple you have. If the leaf margin, or edge, of your maple's leaves appear serrated, it is probably a red maple. Roughly toothed: The red maple has a slightly smaller leaf than most other species, with its most distinctive feature being a rough, saw-like edge. Fuzzy: If your maple tree has a soft white coating on the underside of the leaf, it is almost certainly a silver maple.A leaf from a Norway maple will yield a milky sap from the end of the leaf, while the sugar maple will not. The easiest way to tell these species apart using the leaves is to break a leaf off the twig. Large, 5-lobed leaf: Both the sugar maple and the Norway maple have this characteristic, with the sugar maple leaf having a few large teeth and rounded spaces between the lobes. There is some variation between cultivars of this tree, but most possess this feature to a greater or lesser degree. However, you will note all lobes of this leaf still originate from a single point on the leaf stock and have no stems of their own.
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