Japanese Maple
Acer palmatum
Japanese Maple · New York Botanical Garden · 24 April 2022
A cut-leaf maple in new leaf, with a cherry going over behind it.
The trunk is the interesting part. Japanese maples grow slowly and lean as they go, and an old one develops this writhing, low-branched habit that no amount of pruning produces on its own. A tree this shape is likely to be pushing a century.
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