Acer Enkan

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    Hello, everyone. One of the branches of my acer Enkan is producing some different colour leaves to the rest of the tree. Any ideas why this might occur? I don’t mind it at all as long as it’s not detrimental to the plant.

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      Hi

      lots of plants with variegated , self colour leaves can revert to another colour.

      When it’s green it has more chlorophyll in the leaf and makes full use of the sun and may grow stronger , occasionally you see in a golden privet hedge a huge splash of green which eventually will take over.

      I woudnt be concerned and that’s how occasionally new varieties are produced .

      let’s see what others say

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      Thank you. That might as well be the case. I know parts of lots of variegated plants sometimes revert to green and grow stronger, but I don’t remember seeing it in acers before. I’ll monitor and prune if necessary. I quite like the pink-tinged green leaves as well, but I don’t suppose there’s a way of taking a cutting from there, apart from maybe grafting… Can you propagate acers by air layering?
       
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