Acer palmatum 'Twombly's Red Sentinel' Columnar Japanese Maple Type_Rhododendron Mike Francis

Mike Francis

'Aureomarginatum'

‘Beni gasa’ is typically a bright orange for fall

Orange Snakebark Japanese Maple

By late spring the leaves mature to a dark green

Acer palmatum 'Twombly's Red Sentinel' Columnar Japanese Maple Type_Rhododendron Mike FrancisAcer palmatum 'Twombly's Red Sentinel' Red Sentinel Columnar Japanese Maple Zones 5 9 In the late 1970s, Ken Twombly of Twomblys Nursery in CT, found a compact growth shaped mutation on a red bloodgood type of a Japanese maple at a church in eastern Connecticut. When this broom like mutation was propagated it had a very unusual form. The name of Twomblys Red Sentinel which Ken chose describes this Japanese maple perfectly. These grafted trees remain