Acer tschonoskii SEEDS

Acer tschonoskii seeds grow into Tschonosk’s maple a graceful, small to medium-sized deciduous tree native to the temperate biome from the Kuril Islands south through Hokkaido, Honshu and the mountains of central and southern Japan. Named after Chonosuke Sugawa (known as Tschonoski), the Japanese plant collector who worked with the Russian botanist Maximowicz in the 1860s70s and whose collections of Japanese flora formed the basis for many Maximowicz species descriptions. This elegant maple develops sharply pointed, deeply lobed leaves with a finely serrated margin and produces good yellow and orange autumn colour on a compact, somewhat fastigiate to rounded tree. Family Sapindaceae.

Full sun to partial shade; moist, humus-rich, well-drained soils; prefers cooler conditions. A refined collector’s maple rarely seen in Western gardens.

• Sharply pointed, deeply lobed leaves with finely serrated margins; elegant refined form
• Good yellow-orange autumn colour; compact, fastigiate to rounded crown
• Kuril Islands to N. & Central Japan temperate biome; cool mountain forests
• Named after Chonosuke Sugawa (Tschonoski), Japanese collector for Maximowicz
• Full sun to partial shade; moist humus-rich soils; cool conditions; rare in Western gardens

Acer tschonoskii honours one of the forgotten heroes of Japanese botanical exploration a refined and elegant maple from the mountain forests of the Kurils and Japan that deserves far wider appreciation in temperate ornamental collections.

IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.