Hello everyone. This is my first post to the forum. This little maple is new to me last year at the American Bonsai Society conference in Denver CO, So I can't claim much of the work at this point other than the fall trim and general care. (I will share more of my own work soon though.) Just a beautiful little maple that I thought you might enjoy. Originally imported from Japan.
Here's some progression on an amur maple, Acer ginnala, that I've been working on for at least 8 years. Originally given to me by a friend who collected the tree in Iowa. Interestingly, it was not variegated until the past five years. All of a sudden it was there! My only guess is that it's some type of viral infection, but it doesn't seem to affect the tree's health overly much.
Hi, Amur Maple regularly becomes under a couple of circumstances: high growth rate and post-stress. So young seedlings are often variegated until established, and large trees will show some variegation the year after a difficult season. Sometimes. In either case, nothing at all to worry about. Cheers, -E
Thank you Emery, That makes a lot of sense. Simply being restricted in a bonsai pot may be just enough stress to bring it out in this case. I hadn't considered this. Cheers, Dan
Good job! I find this species more difficult to work with than palmatum because the internodes are longer, yet I still have a couple in training.
Thank you! I agree, the internodes are longer than palmatum. After years in the small pot, and only re-potting when absolutely necessary it has slowed the growth down significantly though. I used to need a good partial defoliation in late spring/early summer the first few years in a pot, but now only a bit of tidying up does the trick. Do the field maples (campestre) have long internodes as well? I don't have much experience with them but they seem like they would behave similarly.
