# Our Japanese maple

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-maple/843912>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 24, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-maple/843912 "2019-11-24T15:24:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-japanese-maple/843912/21 "2019-12-12T02:01:32Z")

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Being in the landscaping business, not a day goes by that I’m not looking at and noticing trees. The only Japanese Maples that have come to my attention lately, seem to have come to my attention _because_ they are holding brown leaves. I’ll be looking to see if I find any that have dropped their leaves.

I suspect it’s likely related to exceptionally high _and/or_ exceptionally low temps _and/or_ drought stress. A few weeks ago, I noticed my brother’s Kousa Dogwood also had leaves that showed drought stress and didn’t color up. I believe they were hanging on, I’ll have to check those too. Next year I’ll be stressing proper watering through the season, to protect against another year of stress that would definitely increase the danger to the tree.

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