The term “ Japanese maple ” (or possibly “ maple of Japan ”) is allotted to different Espèce S from maple S and has two significances:

• In the world of horticultural industry , the term “maple Japanese” gathers the whole of the species, subspecies and Cultivar S of:

• webbed maple ( Acer palmatum ), also called Japanese maple smoothes
• and sometimes species such as:
• Acer japonicum - Maple of Japan
• Acer shirasawanum
• Acer sieboldianum
• Acer pseudosieboldianum
• Acer buergerianum

• In the world of the botanists, “Japanese maple” is a generic term for the 23 endemic maple species of Japan and neighborhood.

However, the term “maple of Japan” must be preferentially used to indicate Acer japonicum .

See too

• Classification of the maples