Acer takeshimense (Acer takeshimense)

Acer takeshimense is not a tree for a small garden. It grows reasonably quickly (10 years) to 25′, but if you have the room it is a killer. The leaves are dark green in summer, glossily orbicular (my favorite shape), but the fall color shreds (this is a modern youth word, I believe, which means ‘is fantastic’). It is listed as a subspecies of pseudosieboldianum and as such would be super hardy.