Dear all, As you know, due the low resources that we have here in Brazil, many times some nurseries offer badly named Acer cultivars. Take a look in this pictures, please. What you think? I bought like Acer palmatum "atropurpureum". But sometimes I think that's a Bloodgood... In Vertress 2001 they describe atropurpureum and bloodgood as Palmatum group, but in 2010 they classify both like Amoenum. I see this like Palmatum... but maybe you people can help me to identify correctly! Thanks a lot! Guilherme
I'd like to, but I'm just an amateur like you, and it's very hard to tell: there are several cv that can look very similar. I have one that I just call "A. atropurpureum" for lack of information. Anyway, what really matters is that it stays healthy, and yours looks perfect.
For me Bloodgood is just an improved cultivar of Acer palmatum atropurpureum! Bloodgood seems to have bigger leaves than atropurpureum, and it is a problem for bonzaika. But anyway, if your tree is not graft you will never be sure that it is a Bloodgood cultivar. Also, you can read this interesting subject about the differences between atropurpureum and Bloodgood: http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=51909
Thanks for all, It's relly a great subject Onra. I thinking that I have an atropurpureum... my tree have an deep-green leafs in sometimes of the year. That's occours two times, in middle-spring and middle-summer... Aftar that, the leaf became to scarlet-red for the fall. It's a grafted tree. But we never knows their origin. Like a said before, there are no professionalism in the nurseries working with JM. Ok... That's good... but the true about my atropurpureum we will never be sure! jejeje Best regards, Guilherme
