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‘Seiryu’ is the only dissected cultivar that has an upright form. Leaves emerge light green with reddish tipped edges in spring, mature to medium green in summer and turn gold with orange and red hues in fall. Small reddish-purple flowers in spring are somewhat attractive on close inspection but are not showy from a distance. Cultivar name means green dragon.

‘Sango-kaku’ is an upright, slow-growing, vase-shaped form. It is sometimes commonly called coral bark maple in reference to its distinctive and showy pink bark which provides excellent colour and contrast to landscapes in winter. The pink colouration is less pronounced to almost absent in summer. Best pink colouration occurs on young twigs and branches. Palmate, almost ferny leaves  with serrate margins emerge yellow-green with reddish margins in spring, mature to light green by summer and turn yellow-gold in fall. Small reddish-purple flowers in spring. Flowers are followed by samaras that ripen in late summer to fall. Cultivar name means coral tower (sango meaning sea coral and kaku meaning tower/upward growing) as if to suggest this pink-barked cultivar resembles coral rising upward from a reef.