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Sagara nishiki (medium)
A variegated cultivar of bright yellow over a mid-green base. When first unfolding, the coloured portion, often dotted around the leaf edge or sometimes occupying part or all of a lobe, is cerise pink. This fades through green to yellow with a slight margin of dark pink remaining.
St. Jean (medium)
An open, spreading cultivar with deeply-divided leaves that emerge a bright pink-red. Summer colour changes to shades of bronze-red to pink with crimson tones appearing in the autumn.
Sango kaku (large)
Known as the Coral Bark maple, this cultivar provides interest all year round. Leaves emerge heavily tinted with bright orange gradually changing to bright mid-green and returning to orange and pink in autumn. In winter young shoots mature to a brilliant coral-red that fades somewhat when shaded with the following season’s growth but will remain on older wood for several years.
Sawa chidori (medium)
A reticulatum cultivar with pale greenish-cream leaves and prominent mid-green main veins overlaid with a delicate shade of blush-pink fading towards the centre of the lobes and darkest at the leaf tips.
Seigai (medium)
Also known as Akaji nishiki as well as Bonfire in the USA, this cultivar has brilliant scarlet long-lobed leaves in spring. Colour changes through mottled bronze-red to green, during which time the main veins are yellow. The twiggy growth becomes flame-red in autumn.
Seigen (medium)
A small-leaved, delicate-looking plant with flame-red to bright crimson colour in the spring. Some mottling occurs as the leaves change to the green of summer and autumn colour is a mixture of bright orange-yellow and persimmon-red.
Seigen Aureum (medium)
A colour variant of the above, a few shades lighter with bright orange-red leaves. The colour of the title appears in spring when the unfolding buds and leaves are bright yellow.
Sekimori (dissectum)
A vigorous cultivar with coarsely serrated, green leaves and reddish-brown tips. Autumn colour is yellow to orange whilst the bark is green with white striations.
Sekka yatsubusa (medium)
Long, narrow, pointed lobes open light green with light rusty-red tips. The leaves quickly darken to a dusky deep green with the tips and lobes more prominently marked with purple-red. Unusually, this cultivar has leaves arranged in whorls along the shoots and clustered at the shoot tips, unlike the traditional arrangement of leaves in opposing pairs.
Sharp's Pygmy (small)
A “pruneless” dwarf! Deeply-divided and serrated light green leaves with red edges on short stubby shoots produce a perfect bun-shaped plant that turns to brilliant orange and scarlet in autumn.
Shidava Gold (small)
A witch’s broom of Aoyagi/Ukon with light yellow-green leaves and bright pea-green bark with leaves turning yellow in autumn.
Shigi no hoshi (medium)
Very similar to the following cultivar but with plumper, more heavily serrated leaves giving a lacier look to it. In addition, spring colour has less yellow in the creamy-green base colour.
Shigitatsu sawa (medium)
A reticulatum cultivar with deep mid-green main veins and lighter sub veins over a base colour of pale, almost translucent, green-white with a hint of yellow. Leaves darken somewhat in summer and change to gold and red in autumn.
Shindeshojo (medium)
An improved selection of Deshojo, this cultivar has the most brilliant red spring colour of all maples. New growth is a luminescent flaming scarlet or ruby-red that holds for several months, gradually changing through mottled pink/red, pink/cream and cream/green to green in summer. Autumn colours are shades of orange and red.
Shirofu nishiki (medium)
Light yellow-green leaves in spring are tipped with red that gradually fades as the leaves darken. In summer, slight variegation appears but the most notable aspect is the change in colour of the leaves on the top of the plant to yellow. Autumn is a mixture of orange and red.
Shojo no mai (medium)
Powdery grey-green leaves with deep pink margins that sometimes occupy a whole lobe. This cultivar holds its pink variegation all summer without fading and eventually produces a twiggy shrub taller than wide.
Shojo shidare (dissectum)
Leaves are deep maroon, changing to dark purple in spring with the main veins a contrasting deep bronze-green. Autumn colours are bright red/crimson. A good alternative to Crimson Queen or Red Dragon.
Sieun kaku (small)
Long-lobed, slightly convex leaves on short stubby shoots overlap each other like roof tiles. Light fresh green in spring, darkening as the season progresses on a flat-topped plant. A larger version of Mikawa yatsubusa.
Sister Ghost (medium)
A cultivar in the same mould as Shigitatsu sawa but with narrow segmented leaves divided almost to the base with heavily serrated margins. Autumn colour is a mixture of pink and orange.
Skeeter's Broom (small)
A witch’s broom derived from Bloodgood that produces a narrow, upright form rather than the more rounded form normally encountered. Leaves, often quite large for this group, are bright red on first opening. Mature leaves are a deep purple-red that won’t fade in summer.
Sode nishiki (medium)
Light orange leaves bordered with pink slowly darken to deep orange with red margins and changing to yellow-green in summer. Autumn colour is brilliant yellow.
Spring Delight (dissectum)
Light green leaves in the spring are edged with red. A vigorous grower that puts on height quicker than most dissectum cultivars.
Stella Rossa (dissectum)
The new foliage is a deep pink-red in spring, gradually darkening to purple-red which holds well throughout the summer. Autumn colour is bright red.
Sunset (dissectum)
Small leaves, not as heavily dissected as some cultivars, display an unusual two-tone colour. Base colour is light green but leaves exposed to the sun are yellow. The entire plant has a tinting of light rust that has the appearance of very fine speckling. Shaded leaves show this effect on the margins whilst exposed leaves are brushed entirely with burnt orange.
Susei (dissectum)
This cultivar is considered to be synonymous with Filigree, being the Japanese version. For the time being, however, it is kept separate.
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