Acer fabri Vines The plant is a citrange

The plant is a citrange

Resembling the better-known cousin

fast and adaptable

watched the first flowers open

Joe shared the plant with Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana

Acer fabri Vines The plant is a citrangeAcer fabri, known as Faber's maple or emerald jade maple, is a small evergreen to semi evergreen tree of rounded habit whose slender, prominently veined, pointed leaves are entirely unlobed; few would guess the plant for a maple until the winged seeds appear. The new growth flushes a fine copper red, and the samaras ripen red as well before fading to brownish yellow in late summer, so the tree carries color without depending on the usual autumn