Add rich color and compact beauty to your landscape with Acer palmatum ‘Rhode Island Red’, a dwarf Japanese Maple prized for its deep red foliage and naturally rounded growth habit. This ornamental tree maintains vibrant red leaves throughout the growing season, turning brilliant fiery red in autumn.

Its compact size and slow growth make it ideal for patios, containers, fairy gardens, foundation plantings, and small landscape spaces. Easy to maintain and highly ornamental, ‘Rhode Island Red’ fits beautifully into cozy garden settings. You will receive a healthy container-grown tree similar in size and condition to the listing photos.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Acer palmatum ‘Rhode Island Red’ tree
✔️ Height: approximately 20–30 inches tall
✔️ Grown in #3 nursery container
✔️ Healthy, rooted Japanese Maple
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Rhode Island Red Japanese Maple
• Botanical Name: Acer palmatum ‘Rhode Island Red’
• Plant Type: Deciduous ornamental tree
• Growth Stage: Young container-grown tree
• Sun Requirements: Morning sun to partial shade
• Soil: Moist, well-draining soil
• Watering: Moderate; keep soil evenly moist
• Mature Height: Approximately 3–4 feet
• Mature Width: Approximately 3–4 feet
• Growth Rate: Slow growing
• USDA Zones: 5–9
• Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip

Provide afternoon shade in warmer climates to preserve vibrant foliage color and protect leaves from summer scorch. Mulching helps maintain cool roots and even moisture levels.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.