When someone says, "I need a small tree for a small space," my first thought is always of Japanese maples. Why? These ...

Japanese maples are popular because of their brightly colored leaves. For a small space ... red berries attract songbirds. Popular types of Hawthorn trees include Crimson Cloud (C.

And many of the specimens seen in urban spaces are grown from a small number of seeds collected by early plant hunters, with only limited genetic diversity. Currently, 14 species of maple tree ...

Their research found only 12 mature Amami maples ... the species' population was still "dangerously small". "Our fear was that there were no females in the population, but five of the trees ...