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Acer Seeds
(Maples)
Acers /
Conifers / Broadleaves A /
Broadleaves B-K / Broadleaves
L-Z / Stratified Seed /
Climbers
There are many Acers suitable for growing into Bonsai as single specimens or in groups, and in many forms from slanting, windswept, informal root over rock. Acer description refers to the parent tree, in many cases the seeds will produce seedlings which differ from the parent tree many may be quite unique. All seed supplied with Tree Seed germinating fact sheet. Magical powers of Maples include longevity, love and money.
Maples in containers.
Acers Prefer a moist rich well drained soil, in full sun or partial shade with
shelter from winds to prevent leaf burn. Acers grow well in
containers/pots due to their fine fibrous root system, they prefer their roots
tight and compact so do not over pot them. The size of Maples can be governed by
the pot size, when you reach the size required stop at that pot size. Do not let
Maples dry out during the summer months.
Seed from Acer palmatum may not always come true to the parent tree, many will
produce a range of variable seedlings, many may be unique.
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| Acer barbinerve Bearded Maple Leaves of a beautiful yellow colour in autumn. 20 seeds £1.95 Add to basket
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| Acer buergerianum
25 seeds £1.30 Bonsai & Trees Trident Maple. A deciduous small to medium sized tree. Leaves are often red to orange in the fall. E China & Korea The classic Bonsai tree, it dwarfs well when confined to containers and the leaves become smaller as the plants adapts to being trained for Bonsai. Add to basket
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| Acer campestre 40 seeds £1.65 Bonsai & Trees Field Maple, Common Maple, Hedge Maple Small deciduous tree with attractive shaped leaves of bright green that turn yellow or sometimes red in autumn. Suited to most bonsai forms. Can be used for topiary and clipped hedges, well suited to wildlife hedging.
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| Acer Cappadocicum 25 seeds £2.25 Caucasian Maple Beautiful spreading deciduous tree with the green leaves in spring turning yellow in autumn. Add to basket
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| Acer cinnamomifolium
20 seeds £1.95 Bonsai & Trees Yunnan or Southern Maple Ornamental small tree, evergreen to semi evergreen. Add to basket
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| Acer circinatum
15 seeds £1.65 Bonsai & Trees Vine Maple Closely related to the Japanese Maple palmatam. Beautiful fall colours of orange and scarlet tints. Deciduous spreading hardy bushy tree. Excellent small tree for any size of garden and adapts to most conditions of soil and from full sun to shade. Add to basket
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| Acer Cissifolium
25 seeds £1.25 Ivy Leaf Maple A native to Japan a rounded tree form being as tall as it is wide. Ideal specimen plant. Can be grown with multiple trunks, autumn leaf colouring yellow could be yellow to red.
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| Acer davidii
30 seeds £2.50 Bonsai & Trees Snakebark Maple Small to medium size deciduous tree. The bark is green to purplish-red with a white stripe, and with age becomes rough and cracked. Heart shaped leaves that turn yellow through to orange in the autumn. Can be used for most forms of Bonsai. Add to basket 30 seeds
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Acer ginnala 25 seeds £1.10 Bonsai & Trees Amur Maple A small deciduous very hardy tree or large shrub. Beautiful fall colours, papery leaves turning light to dark red in autumn. Frost tolerant. Add to basket
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| Acer ginnala Flame
20 seeds £1.25 Bonsai & Trees Flame Maple A small tree with brilliant autumn leaf colouring. Add to basket
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| Acer
Glabrum
20 seeds £1.25 Bonsai & Trees Rocky Mountain maple A small Maple to 7-9m with brilliant autumn leaf colouring of bright red-orange. Add to basket
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| Acer griseum
10 seeds £2.35 Paperbark Maple One of the best all round Maples. A spreading medium sized tree, slow growing with peeling orange-brown bark that is stunning all through the year. Papery leaves turn orange through to red and scarlet in autumn. One of the most beautiful small trees with peeling bark that hangs in loose flakes. Add to basket
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| Acer Henryi
25 Seeds £1.00 A.cissifolium subsp henryi A colourful deciduous small to medium sized tree. Autumn leaf colouring a brilliant red. Add to basket
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Acer Japonicum 10 seeds £1.40 Bonsai & Trees Full Moon Maple Super soft green rounded eight to eleven lobed leaves which give some of the best and most reliable autumn colouring. Add to basket
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Acer Japonicum aconitifolium
10 seeds £2.15 Bonsai & Trees Fern Leaf maple A colourful deciduous free flowering small tree, mid-green deeply cut fern shaped leaves in summer turning a beautiful scarlet to gold tints during the autumn. The appearance of the tree from a distance is a startling flame red. Suited to most styles of Bonsai. Add to basket
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| Acer macrophyllum
5g pkt Av 30 seeds £1.45 Oregon Maple, Big Leaf Maple A large deciduous tree, with dark green deeply lobed leaves in summer turning a orange brown during the autumn. Ornamental yellow green flowers hang in panicles followed by winged fruits. Add to basket
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| Acer
monspessulanum
20 seeds £2.00 Bonsai & Trees Montpelier Maple Small dark green leaved bushy deciduous shrub or small tree, 3 lobed leaves which are naturally small, not widely used for Bonsai but has potential to make a good Bonsai. Add to basket
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| Acer negundo
Av 50 seeds £1.25 Box elder, Ash-leaved maple A fast growing ornamental deciduous tree, leaves turn yellow in autumn. Yellow green flowers in drooping racemes from April until May and are pollinated by bees. Sugar can be produced from the sap and a tea can be made from the inner bark. Makes a good bee plant. Add to basket
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Acer Nikoense 15 seeds £2.75 Nikko Maple Ornamental deciduous broadleaf small tree or large shrub, in autumn leaves turn a brilliant orange to red. Add to basket
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| Acer palmatum
30 seeds £1.30 Bonsai &Trees Japanese Maple The beautiful Japanese Maple, a round headed deciduous tree, one of the classic bonsai trees and ornamental tree. Foliage colour ranges from green in spring turning orange to yellow or red in autumn. Add to basket
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| Acer palmatum atropurpureum
25 seeds £1.95 Bonsai & Trees Blood Leaf Japanese Maple. In autumn the deeply lobed red-purple leaves turn a brilliant red. One of the classic Bonsai trees, can be grown in almost all the classic styles. Add to basket
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| Acer palmatum
Atropurpureum Dissectum
20 seeds £2.75 Bonsai & Trees Cut leaf Maple Add to basket
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Acer Palmatum Dissectum
20 seeds £2.45 Bonsai & Trees
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| Acer platanoides
25 seeds £1.25 Bonsai & Trees Norway Maple Deciduous medium to tall tree, excellent specimen or landscape tree. Autumn colouring clear yellow sometimes red. A good bonsai subject. Add to basket
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| Acer platanoides Crimson King
20 seeds £1.55 Bonsai & Trees Norway Maple Deciduous medium to tall tree, excellent specimen or landscape tree. Young leaves a dark reddish brown turning a rich dark crimson purple later in the year beautiful autumn colouring. The RHS Award of Garden Merit. A good bonsai subject. Add to basket
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| Acer platanoides schwedleri
20 seeds £1.45 Bonsai & Trees Schwedleri Norway Maple Deciduous medium to tall tree, spring foliage of red to bronze colouring, turning yellow in autumn. A good bonsai subject. Add to basket
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| Acer
pseudosieboldianum
25 seeds £1.45
Bonsai & Trees Korean Maple A deciduous small tree (up to 8m) with a rounded bushy head. The leaves turning crimson tints in autumn. Add to basket
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| Acer
pseudoplatanus
20 seeds £1.65 Sycamore Maple, Great Maple, Sycamore Deciduous fast growing tree, with grey-brown bark that peels off in large flakes. Prefers moist free draining soil in full sun to partial shade. Add to basket
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| Acer rubrum
50 seeds £1.65 Bonsai
& Trees Red Maple, Scarlet Maple. The American Red Maple having deeply cut dark green foliage. Red flowers appear before the leaves in the spring. Deciduous tree, best grown in acid soil for the superb spring flowers and fall colouring of bright red. Add to basket
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| Acer Rufinerve
20 seeds £1.55 Red Veined Maple, Japanese Snake Bark Maple One of the best Snake Bark Maples, the attractive bark has grey stripes running up the green coloured bark that grays with age. The light green spring foliage is followed by bright orange autumn colours suffused with crimson and red veins. Out of Stock
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| Acer saccharum 15
seeds £1.90 Bonsai & Trees Sugar Maple Deciduous tree with autumn colouring of brilliant orange to red and yellow. The sap is used for making a sweetener and also Maple Syrup. Add to basket
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| Acer Spicatum
30 seeds £1.25 Mountain Maple Also known as Moose Maple. A medium sized hardy maple, leaves turn from various shades of yellow to orange through to red in the autumn. The sap can be used to make Maple Syrup. Add to basket
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| Acer tegmentosum
30 seeds £1.45 Ornamental small tree with snake like bark of silvery white and green striped bark. Leaves turn yellow in autumn. Add to basket
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| Acer triflorum
15 seeds £1.60 Rough Bark Maple A deciduous tree with peeling grey-brown bark. Leaves turn orange in autumn. Add to basket
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| Acer truncatum
15 seeds £2.35 Bonsai & Trees Shantung Maple A deciduous small sized easy growing tree that should make a good Bonsai. Leaves in spring are a red/purple colouring, green in summer and then turning yellow/orange to purple in the fall. It is said to have the roughest bark of all the maples. An elegant maple when in flower and during the fall Add to basket
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| Scarification :- The germination of some
seeds is greatly improved by rubbing the seeds lightly between two sheets of
sandpaper or soking in water to break down the hard coating which prevents
the seed from imbibing moisture. Stratification :- Tree seeds have to be subjected to a period of cold and warm stratification to break their dormancy before germination takes place, as it would normally in the spring. You can provide the period of cold by adding the seed to damp sieved peat, sand or vermiculite and putting it in a plastic bag in the fridge for 2-32 weeks dependant on species. |
Tree Index / Acers / Conifers / Broadleaves A / Broadleaves B-K / Broadleaves F-Z / Collections / Stratified Seed / Climbers
The cultural information should be
used as a guide only, I have found a number of different sowing techniques for
the same seed from different sources there does not seem to be a standard. With
this in mind you should use this website as a guide only, you probably already
have a tried and tested way of sowing different seeds. As a rule of thumb the
larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed like Lobelia
Begonia etc requires no cover.
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