This is the hardiest and most popular of all the upright cultivars of Red Japanese Maple, always popular.

A fine newer cultivar distinguished by its bright red foliage. Whereas the more widely available cultivar, 'Bloodgood' has a maroon color, this one is redder, especially when the sun shines through the leaves. Hardy - leaves emerging two weeks later than 'Bloodgood'. Milwaukee, WI city arborists consider 'Emperor I' hardy within their urban area.

One of the less familiar cultivars, 'Fireglow' is red-leaved and looks somewhat like 'Bloodgood' but grows slower and denser. It is redder during the summer, becoming purple/red with green by fall.

One-year plants are perfect for re-potting to grow on for a season; transplants are best for prompt resale. For best branching, lightly pinch the stem tips when they're in tender new growth. An inexpensive alternative to grafted varieties, they are often sold in the GC in a #1 or #2 pot.

While Ragin' Red has the darkest red floral bracts of any C. florida it also has very dark red leaves, here in Oregon, nearly all summer long. Fall color is again red. So it really is in a red rage from spring until leaf drop.

Deep purple, shiny leaves, upright when young, spreading to form a 60 ft. globe at maturity. Long in cultivation: cemeteries in many Eastern US cities were often planted with this variety, or other purple beeches that have grown to enormous impressive specimens. Fast-growing in the nursery, they make great field plants to bump later into a #15-20 container.

Relatively tight upright form, but not as columnar as the Dawyck selections. Its incised purple leaves with their wavy edges give this popular selection its wide appeal.