Mikawa Yatsubusa

Mikawa Yatsubusa is one of the unique dwarf varieties of Japanese maple that most everyone thinks you spent years shaping and pruning ala Mr. Miyagi, but it actually does it quite naturally! Its name means shingles on a roof, describing the delicate beauty of each leaf stacking and layering one on top of another. Fall often brings golds and orange. On Dwarf Drive, our Mikawa grows mere inches a year and is somewhat globe to flattened globe shaped. A containerized example grows slowly upright. One friend suggested to me that these differences may have to be do with where the scion wood originated. Overall a beautiful tree.