The cultivar Acer shirasawanum ‘Jordan’, (the English translation of Giordano) was selected directly on their Nurseries and is characterised by the luminosity of the yellow leaf colour that lasts unchanged from the spring to the end of summer. Of a bright tonality, almost like a ray of moonlight, it assumes a really unique aspect in the assortment of yellow leafed varieties. At maturation, the leaves take on the typical form of A. shirasawanum species with 9/11 lobes and lightly serrated margins.
The apical branches of the new vegetation are of a pastel colour in the part most exposed to the sun, and this further emphasises the straw yellow colour of the leaves. The young apical leaves are very broad and at the beginning have a palmate form; in the first phases they have rose-orange coloured margins.
The light quivering of the leaves rocked by an afternoon breeze until the beginning of sunset emphasises the many shades that derive from the contrast between soft and bright colours.
A vigorous plant with an erect multibranched growth habit. The bark of the trunk and adult branches is of a grey colour with vertical white striping.
Zone 6 (Europe 7); minimum temperature -15°C to - 20°C


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