Dear friends, Glad to talking with you! I'm a brazilian guy crazy for japanese maples. I have in my garden a little collection of this amazing trees. Here in my country it's so difficult to have someone or someplace that have or produce japanese maples. Mainly by the tropically climate, of course. But I live in extreme south, and here we have a better conditions to cultivate this trees. Never like northern hemisphere… but, it's possible. Due the hard difficult to find and buy or propagate Acer palmatum here, another problem is the identification. When we bought some tree we always need to confirm the cultivar. I'm here to learn with you… to take some doubts… to be helped in identify the trees… to find ways to bring some news to my little garden! Thank you all!! Guilherme Deporte Porto Alegre - Brazil