Acer micranthum David Geiger is grown in Italy and

is grown in Italy and flown out weekly

Use white beautyberry massed for a luminous late-season effect

and belongs to the birch family alongside the hop hornbeams

or anywhere the conditions of the native cobble bars can be approximated

shrubby forms of the related Distylium myricoides that have lately become popular

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