Re: Re(2): Cultivating to get busted

Dear Trevor,
I'm happy to learn that Acer pentephyllum is drought hardy too. When I
bought mine a gardening friend from Copenhagen, who was with me, also
bought one and took it home to her garden there. It is still living, in
snowy or dry cold winters.
As I remember, Elaine Sedlack at Univ.of Calif.Bot.Gard. told me it comes
from central China. 
Elly Bade
Berkeley, Calif.
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Trevor Nottle wrote:

> Date:          Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:29:08 -0800 (PST)
> From:          William Bade <bade@math.berkeley.edu>
> To:            Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@monterey.edu>
> Cc:            sean.ohara@poboxes.com, medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject:       Re: Re(2): Cultivating to get busted
> Reply-to:      bade@math.berkeley.edu
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:
> 
> > I cant tell you how many times ive had friends from highschool mistake a
> > japanese maple for a hemp plant! I think the first time they saw one was
> > when we were on a class field trip to berkeley, and they saw a couple of
> > trees there. I had to inform them those were maples!
> > 
> > 
> Then there's Acer pentephyllum ...I bought one at Western Hills Nursery in
> California and was bringing it home in the back of my stationwagon. I
> received smiles and nods from everyone, and on the Richmond-San Rafael
> bridge lots of honks and greetings.
> Elly Bade
> 
> 
> It is a stunning tree with beautiful foliage and pretty tough too - 
> as far as sun and heat and drought goes. Mine, about 20 years old is 
> approx. 10m tall and 15 broad. Autumn colour isn't much - tho' I 
> believe there are now selected autumn colour strains which are pretty 
> good. It self seeds - not heavily - in my garden. I could save seed 
> if anyone is interested.
> 
> trevor n
> 
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