Acer palmatum 'Ojishi'
Object Details
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- Smithsonian Gardens Display Collection
- Accession Number
- 2021-0482A
- Description
- This dwarf Japanese maple cultivar is a slow grower with dense leaf coverage. Its cultivar name, Ojishi, is one of a pair of literary Japanese lions from the 1700s. ‘Meijishi/Shishigashira,’ the female lion, is a more commonly found Japanese maple cultivar than ‘Ojishi,’ and has even more crinkled leaves. This cultivar is also popular among bonsai growers.
- Hardiness
- -20 - 30 F
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Topic
- Display Gardens
- Living Collections
- Range
- cultivar
- Life Form
- Deciduous tree
- Average Height
- 8'
- Bark Characteristics
- Mature bark grey, young bark red.
- Fall Color
- Yellow to orange in late fall
- Foliage Characteristics
- Palmate, dissected, heavily crinkled leaves
- Fruit Characteristics
- Red samaras from early to mid fall
- Structure
- Dwarf, round
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Common Name
- Male Lion's Head Japanese Maple
- Ojishi Japanese Maple
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Rosanae
- Order
- Sapindales
- Family
- Sapindaceae
- Genus
- Acer
- Species
- palmatum
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2021-0482A
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Photographed by: Hannele Lahti
Photographed by: Hannele Lahti