Hi! I try to find what Acer is it. It's in our national botanical garden. On the board is Sieboldianum Kinugasa-yama, but definitely not according to leaves. A forgot take more pictures (I'll make more next year) but any guessing based on that? I'd like it very much, but I don't know, what have I searching for.
It's really hard to ID cultivars from photos. Certainly it's not 'Kinu gasa yama' -- that's how I have the spacing, but your version is just as likely -- but otherwise, it's probably some form of A. amoenum var. matsumurae.
100% agree. Definitely a matsumurae but virtually impossible to name to a cultivar level. I can't even think of any with a similar sounding name that look like that and could have been mixed up. Could also be a rootstock that took over if the graft died.
Went back to "Arboretum des Grandes Bruyères" today. Splendid. A few maples in the "Japanese garden" section. This one is labelled "Acer sieboldianum" : I strongly doubt that it is. The samaras are all red, OK, but it looks more like a matsumurae. What do you think ? Any suggestion ? There are many other maples that I didn't bother to photograph (A. davidii, A. tataricum, A. trifolium still green, A. buergerianum, etc.) but there are two in the "American section that were displaying great colours. I don't know what the 1st one is, but I'm pretty sure it's a maple (opposed leaves). A very light yellow, seldom seen here. Any suggestion ? And what members here helped me identify lat year, Acer x freemanii :
I don't think so, and it was in the section "America". I should have taken a photo of the leaves on the ground, they looked more like Acer saccharum...
It looks like A. amoenum to me, clearly not sieboldianum. The light yellow one looks like saccharinum, the silver maple.
Yesterday, I went to a meeting against antisemitism in Orléans. Before getting back, I walked in the streets of the "old Orléans" to take photos of "half-timbered houses" (most of them 18th-19th century, a few of them older). In the early nineteen-eighties, I rented a small flat in a street facing the Loire (top window in the first photo). Across the street, there was a car-park, atop a cubic concrete block that was used as a kind of wholesale market. About 20 years ago, a cinema was built inside, and a restaurant above (excellent ! I had a meal there a couple of years ago). The parking lot was turned into a kind of park, but I had never been there until yesterday. My! There are big trees, and even a vegetable garden with herbs (various thyme, mints, etc.) and even a row of Acer palmatum and a multi-trunk cork-oak. I must visit again in the spring, and I'll post more photos... PS : a photo from the top of this park, towards the Loire :