The Dawes Arboretum

Common name: Grandma Ghost Japanese maple

Family: Aceraceae (maple family)

Distribution: Species native to e. Asia

Hardiness: USDA Zone 5

Life form: Deciduous tree

Comments: One of several open pollinated seedlings originating at Buchholz and Buchholz Nursery, Gaston, OR, distinguished for their pronounced dark leaf veins. In Grandma Ghost these dark veins are juxtaposed against gray-green to rose-blush leaf tissue. Leaves eventually deepen to a solid pink in summer. Members of the "ghost" series grow more slowly than the species typically reaching less than 10' tall.