Dead.
It was dead, I tell you!
Chopped it hard last autumn along with a couple of tridents, a Taiwanese and some Chinese elms. They all roared back in the spring, and most are headed for the same again when their leaves drop, but not this one.
Dead, dead, dead.
Scratched the bark; no green. Unresponsive, as they say. I shoved the pot half under a pile of stuff and forgot about it.
This evening, thinking to repurpose the pot, I haled out handuls of weeds to find....
Eight odd months since any sign of life!
Aren't trees bloody amazing!!!
Japanese Lazarus Maple
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Re: Japanese Lazarus Maple
Yes, they are amazing, and lucky you, it was meant to live. 

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