Buy Acer palmatum 'Dr. Brown'

Dr. Brown Japanese Maple is unique with its Ph.D. in beauty and its ornamental leaves that sometimes have more lobes than other palmatum maples. Soft pinkish-brown color leaves and branching provide an umbrella shape at maturity. Dr. Brown Japanese Maple puts on a show of yellows, oranges, and reds for the fall color. This unique plant will be a talking point in your landscape.

An unusual reddish-brown lace leaf weeping maple that handles full sun – even though it has delicate looking leaves. If grown in full sun the leaf color is more of a rust color, but if grown in mostly shade this cultivar lives up to its name – a softer light brown color. New growth is pinkish red which evolves to the sunny rust color or to the shady light brown. Finally Dr. Brown evolves into a bright fire-engine red fall finish. This cultivar is relatively new and not often found in retail nurseries. A moderate growing cultivar can reach 4′ high and 4′ wide in 10 years. Good accent maple for a Japanese style garden or water feature and one of my new favorites [Sam]. Once established hardy to USDA zone 5. Photos courtesy of Talon Buchholz.

Lacy leaves are light bronze-green with mild yellow variegation on this mounding, fairly slow-growing specimen. Fall colors are yellow and orange.

A small lace-leaf Japaneses Maple with a spreading habit. Small dissected leaves are colored an unusual brown-red in spring. The brown color remains present, even when the brown-red evolves to green-red in summer. Fall color is an outstanding orange-yellow.