Winter Gold (Acer rufinerve 'Winter Gold')

You can see from the picture the winter effect of this tree; in summer it has a creamy look with various fall color to the leaves. Zone 6.

Vanity (Acer rubrum 'Vanity')

This Red Maple is smaller than species, has a lovely sort of speckled variegated leaf that changes with the seasons and doesn’t burn in full sun.

Snakebark Maple (Acer crataegifolium 'Veitchii')

Of all the trees that I grow, this may be the most delicate. It is a snakebark, so the trunk will burn if the tree is in a hot sunny place. The bluish leaves are variegated white and pink and the limbs are thin and fragile, but it is so lovely! The only mature specimen that I have seen is in the UW arboretum in Seattle; it was no more than 12′. zone 6

Siebold Maple (Acer sieboldianum 'Sode no uchi')

A shrubby tree to 10′; it sports small almost round 9 lobed leaves which are a green tinged with red in the summer and gold to purple in the fall. zone 5

Serpentine (Acer davidi 'Serpentine')

Like any snakebark, this tree needs to be kept out of direct sunlight as the dark purple bark with distinctive white vertical lines is tender and will burn. Good fall color on small three lobed leaves. Zone 5.

Redvein Maple (Acer rufinerve 'Albolimbata')

The trunk of this tree is yellowish in summer and gold in the winter. As with all snakebarks, it should be grown as an understory tree because of burning on the trunk. The leaves are variegated. Zone 7

Redvein Maple (Acer rufinerve)

The species rufinerve can be relied upon to produce magnificent fall color. This cultivar which will get perhaps 20′ is no exception; It is a ‘snakebark’ so is best planted as an understory tree to prevent the burning of the bark on the SW side. zone 6

Red Snakebark Maple (Acer rubescens 'Silver Cardinal')

This is the hottest of the hot new snakebarks. The leaves are small a brightly variegated with white and the twigs are bright red all summer. In the winter the trunk is pink striped. Zone 6.