Juniper Level Botanic Garden

A Lust-worthy Alabama Maiden

Twenty years ago (2006), we were botanizing in Southern Alabama, when I spied a particularly unique clump of…...

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Hairy Backside Maple

Looking quite stunning is the garden, is the Eastern Chinese (Anhui, Zhejiang provinces) native, Acer pubipalmatum. Our 13 year old specimen is now 15' tall. Related to the more common Japanese maple, Acer palmatum, the main difference is the pubescent (hairy) leaf backs. If that isn't complicated enough, taxonomists then lumped Acer pubipalmatum with Acer pauciflorum. Now, a splinter group within the Maple Society has decided that this wasn't right, and they actually represent two different species....

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