Bonsai of Acer Palmatum Deshojo.
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• Altezza: 38 cm (vaso escluso)

• Larghezza: 33 cm

• Tronco: 15 cm

• Vaso: 9 x 30 x 20 cm

Foto scattate a Marzo 2026

Acer Palmatum Deshojo bonsai

This Acer Palmatum Deshojo bonsai is the maple collectors wait all winter for. In spring the new growth opens an intense scarlet-crimson that few other trees can match, the whole canopy lighting up before settling into greener tones as the season turns. The leaves are small and finely lobed, held on a delicate ramified branch structure that gives the tree an airy, refined silhouette. It comes in the pot shown and is ready to take pride of place.

Deshojo is one of the great named varieties of Japanese maple, chosen specifically for that fiery spring flush. As a bonsai it rewards the front-on view, where the fine twigging reads against the light and the trunk line carries the eye upward. A tree like this changes through the year, and that seasonal theatre is exactly why deciduous bonsai are so loved.

Heritage

The Japanese maple has been cultivated and selected in Japan for centuries, and Deshojo is among its most celebrated forms, grown for the brilliance of its emerging leaves. It belongs to the deciduous tradition of bonsai, where the beauty lies as much in the bare winter silhouette and the spring awakening as in the summer canopy. To grow a Deshojo is to keep a calendar of colour, a living marker of the turning seasons in miniature.

About this specimen

This particular tree shows good fine ramification and a balanced, refined crown that holds together cleanly from the front, with a trunk line that gives the composition direction. It is a single living specimen, photographed as it is, and the pot is included.

A Deshojo maple is a tree to watch through every season. Bring this one home and the spring flush alone will repay the wait.