Acer palmatum Hubb's Red Willow Stkd

Hubb's Red Willow Japanese Maple

Acer palmatum 'Hubb's Red Willow'

Height: 12 feet

Spread: 5 feet

Sunlight: full sun partial shade

Hardiness Zone: 6a

Group/Class: Linearilobum

Description:

This beauty has delicate long and narrowly lobed leaves of red, with orange and red fall color; upright growth habit is almost columnar when young, becoming broader with age; ideal for general garden use

Ornamental Features

Hubb's Red Willow 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 pink in spring. The deeply cut lobed palmate leaves are highly ornamental and turn outstanding shades of scarlet and orange in the fall.

Landscape Attributes

Hubb's Red Willow Japanese Maple is a dense multi-stemmed 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.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and should only be pruned in summer after the leaves have fully developed, as it may 'bleed' sap if pruned in late winter or early spring. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Hubb's Red Willow Japanese Maple is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Mass Planting
Hedges/Screening
General Garden Use
Container Planting