H~te soc~e~ tJe\.VSte~elr .:wll t ~C~): 5'-9. . seven pairs of lateral buds on the 22.4cm long shoot. The length of the intemedes i very old, two .of the thick between the palred buds, starting fi.·OI11 the base, was 29111.111, 46111.111, 3111U1',28111J11, I branches have withered. Other 38m111and 25111111. The shcot thickness at the base W3S 3.5111111, 2.2111111 in the rniddle I exarnples of
... [Show full abstract] weeping cultivars in and 2.8ml11 at the tip, with the tiny bud 1.5ml11 long. The shoot colour was a matt the Palma tum Group are ']irö yellow-green on the sheltered underside and dark reddish-brown on the exposed outer 1 shidare', 'Izu shidare', 'Ornata side. shidare' and 'Ryiisen'. In mid-April, the shoot emerged from the bud which bad four pairs of scales. I elosely exarnined one of The innermosr scales were very long, extending to 3.3cm, and the inner surface was a the leaves. The óve central lobes strong red. The outer surface was covered in hairs. There were no hairs on the new pointed upwards, while the two shoots whose tip colour was reddish-brown. The upper surface. veins of the hasal lobes pointed downwards. undersurface and peti ole were all hairy. The leaf colour was a srrong yellow-green, The leaf was 5.1 cm long and giving a fresh look. 6.6cm across, and it was divided In mid-August, the lobes were counted on 100 leaves; 38 were 7-lobed, 22 one third of the way to the leaf-base. The leaf colour was dark yellow-green with the 8-lobed and 40 had 9 lobes. A 9-lobed leaf was examined. It had five forward pointing I main veins and petiole a seft yellow-green. The lea ves had doubly-serrate margins. lobes and four pointing backwards. The leaf size was 22ml11 long and 60l11m across, There were l11any fruits (samaras) attached to the current shoots. The wing colour of with the petiole 25111111 long. The middle lobe was 9111111 across at the widest point. I these was yellowish-green, and the stalk a soft yellow-green. The lobes were divided just over halfway (55%) towards the leaf-base. The leaf colcur was a dark green. The auturun colour change starts at arcund the end of October. The leaves change from green to reddish-brown, later turning to astrong yellowish-red. It is very beautiful. The fruit (samara) was measured in mid-Novernber. It was 20ml11 long and 711Ullwide, and the nutlet 5m111x 3111111 x 3111111 thick. The wings were held at an obtuse angle. Acer palmatum 'Nakakamado shidare' (Nakakamado weeping map le) Two trees of this rnaple are located 200km north of Tokyo in Nakakamado, Iwaki City, Pukushima Prefecture, They were specified as the natural monurnent of the country on 15 th june 1937, and have been carefully protected by neighbouring people for a long time (see photo on back cover). The oldest tree is 6.8m tali. Its weeping habit is the main characteristic of this maple, and when 1 look at the • • .. >.' M' • • '. """'''~",","~".i''''''' branch ends, it seerns as if many umbrelias are spread áround. In addition, the trunk and branches are rwisted, distorted and warped, giving the tree shape an uncanny impression. Curiously, a srnall japa nese cypress is growing in the hollow of the trunk. The leaves and samáras are the same as the typical Acer pattuanun. Because the tree is 4 ournrner LUI I VOI Lll, Nomenclature Basionymon: Acer campestre L. var. acuminatilobum J. Papp, Botanikai Közlemények 45(3-4): 269. et tab.n , (1954) Accepted name: Acer acuminatilobum O. Papp) J. Papp, Az Erdő 7(1): 29-31. (1958) Hungarian synonyms: Mátrai ősjuhar (Matra-ancient rnaple), Mátrai békefa (Matra-peace-tree),
