Golden full-moon maple (Acer shirasawanum)

This species grows as a deciduous large shrub or small tree growing to 8 to 15 m tall with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter. The shoots are slender, and hairless. The leaves are rounded, 4.5 to 8 cm long and 6 to 12 cm broad, palmately veined and lobed, with 9–13 (rarely 7) serrate shallowly incised lobes; they are hairless, or thinly hairy at first with white hairs; the petiole is 3 to 7 cm long and hairless. In autumn, the leaves turn bright gold or orange to dark red. The flowers are 1 cm diameter, with five dark purplish-red sepals, five small whitish petals (soon lost), and red stamens.