Shaina Japanese Maple                A-ser pal-MAY-tum

• Deciduous shrub or very small tree, dwarf, to about 6 ft (~2 m) tall, upright, dense.  Leaves simple, opposite, deeply divided, at first bright red than dark maroon-red.
• Sun to part shade, well-drained soil.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 6      Found and named by William Schwartz, Green Mansions Nursery, Pennsylvania in the late 1960s,  A mutant of A. palmatum var. atropurpureum (van Gelderen and van Geldern, 1999).  Some say it was a sport of ‘Bloodgood’    
• Oregon State Univ., North Willamette Research and Extension Center, Aurora.