is grown in Italy and flown out weekly
or anywhere the conditions of the native cobble bars can be approximated
and belongs to the birch family alongside the hop hornbeams
the petals splashed with irregular white
The name says as much: mayhaw
Acer micranthum David Geiger is grown in Italy andAmong the snakebark maples, Acer micranthum ranks with the most delicate, a small, sometimes shrubby tree from the mountains of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku, where the Japanese know the plant as the Komine maple. The species has no settled English name, and that quiet anonymity suits a tree grown for refinement rather than show. James Harris, in The Gardener's Guide to Growing Maples, calls this "a very elegant maple with attractive autumn tints," and