Please leave it alone! Japanese Maples are superb garden trees but the can be fussy...that one looks happy and most of us would be delighted to have a specimen of that age (they're very slow).
It's not a Japanese maple it's a Sycamore cultivar and only relatively slower than a green one. Has a tendency to revert and will seed to ordinary Sycamores
Please leave it alone! Japanese Maples are superb garden trees but the can be fussy...that one looks happy and most of us would be delighted to have a specimen of that age (they're very slow).
It's not a Japanese maple it's a Sycamore cultivar and only relatively slower than a green one. Has a tendency to revert and will seed to ordinary Sycamores
If you get branches with big, evenly green leaves instead of the pretty ones it normally has, you should prune those out - that's "reversion", as Nutcutlet says - when the plain old sycamore tries to take over. The green bits will be more vigorous than the variegated part. Prune it when it's leafless.
The books give 6m x 8m (height x width) as a maximum, so quite a bit smaller than an ordinary sycamore. Assuming they're right, that is...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Please leave it alone! Japanese Maples are superb garden trees but the can be fussy...that one looks happy and most of us would be delighted to have a specimen of that age (they're very slow).
It's not a Japanese maple it's a Sycamore cultivar and only relatively slower than a green one. Has a tendency to revert and will seed to ordinary Sycamores
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The books give 6m x 8m (height x width) as a maximum, so quite a bit smaller than an ordinary sycamore. Assuming they're right, that is...
In the sticks near Peterborough
In the sticks near Peterborough
In the sticks near Peterborough