'Tsuma-gaki' (Amoenum Group) is a small rounded maple that typically grows to 5-7' tall over the first 10 years, eventually maturing to 10' tall. It is particularly noted for the colors on its distinctively pendant emerging leaves: light yellowish green with red-tipped lobes resembling a hand with finger nail polish (tsuma-gaki from Japanese means red nail). Each palmate leaf has 5-7 oval, toothed, moderately cut lobes which are divided about 1/2 way to the leaf base. Leaves turn green by summer before eventually changing to red with some yellow in fall.
