Acer palmatum 'Tsuma beni' Japanese Maple

'Tsuma Beni' is an upright Japanese maple with large, palmate leaves that emerge light green with striking purplish-red margins in early spring. The thick red borders persist through late spring and occasionally into early summer before the foliage transitions to solid green by mid-to-late summer; the leaves characteristically cup upward rather than drooping. In autumn, the foliage turns bright to bold red. The cultivar typically reaches 6-8 feet tall in ten years and was documented in Japanese maple records as early as 1882.