Japanese Maple Koto No Ito

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Landscape Qualities

Koto No Ito Japanese Maple is a deciduous tree with an upright spreading habit of growth. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone.

Ornamental Qualities

Koto No Ito Japanese Maple is primarily valued in the landscape or garden for its ornamental upright and spreading habit of growth. It has attractive green deciduous foliage which emerges crimson in spring. The small deeply cut ferny palmate leaves are highly ornamental and turn outstanding shades of orange | peach and red in the fall. The smooth light green bark is extremely showy and adds significant winter interest.

Planting and Growing

Koto No Ito Japanese Maple will grow to be about 12 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 12 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground | and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a slow rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 60 years or more.

This tree does best in full sun to partial shade. You may want to keep it away from hot | dry locations that receive direct afternoon sun or which get reflected sunlight | such as against the south side of a white wall. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil pH | but grows best in rich soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution | and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

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