Coral Bark Japanese Maple Treebute

A Tree That Glows Brightest in Winter

The Coral Bark Japanese Maple is known for its coral red bark, which deepens to its brightest color in winter, when most of the garden has gone quiet. In spring its leaves open yellow green with red edges. They settle into soft green through summer, then turn golden in fall. This is a tree with something to offer in every season.

In Japanese tradition, the maple is a quiet symbol of grace, renewal, and the beauty of change. Each Treebute Kit is a complete memorial tree kit designed to be planted at home. Many families find comfort in creating a living memorial, a place where love has somewhere to go. Whether you are honoring a person or a beloved pet, your maple grows alongside your memories, season after season.

What Happens After You Order

Why You'll Love the Coral Bark Japanese Maple

• Winter Beauty Unlike Any Other: This is the only tree in our collection that saves its most striking moment for winter. While other memorial trees sleep, the Coral Bark Maple's branches glow an almost fluorescent coral-pink that intensifies with cold.
• Four-Season of Beauty: Spring brings fresh leaves edged in pink, gradually deepening to soft green through summer. In fall, the foliage turns luminous gold, sometimes touched with orange and red, before they fall to reveal the winter coral beneath. Every season offers something new to notice and appreciate.
• Award-Winning Excellence: The Coral Bark Japanese Maple received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit in 1993, recognizing its outstanding garden performance and reliability. This is a tree that has earned its reputation over decades - beautiful, dependable, and beloved by gardeners worldwide
• Graceful, Upright Form: The Coral Bark Japanese Maple grows in an upright, vase-shaped habit with graceful ascending branches - the "tower" referenced in its Japanese name. At maturity, it reaches 15-25 feet tall and 10-15 feet wide. Its form is elegant year-round, but especially striking in winter when the branch structure is fully visible.
• Forgiving and adaptable: Given well drained soil and even moisture, this maple is steady and forgiving, and rewards first time growers with graceful growth.
• The Japanese Maple Heritage: Japanese maples have been cultivated for a thousand years in Japan, where they represent gracem serenity, and the transient beauty of life.
  
• Patio Container or Garden Growing: Grow it in a large container on a patio or deck, or plant it in the ground. It is an outdoor tree, so it asks for a cool winter rather than a spot indoors, and it can move with you when you have a container. 

Each Treebute Kit Includes

✓ Hardy tribute tree (size you select)
✓ Step-by-step planting & watering care guide
✓ Personalized memorial message

➕ Optional Add-Ons (Customize Your Treebute Kit)

o Planter (choose your style & size)
o Premium potting mix (for indoor or patio planting)
o Cremation-safe organic soil blend (for ashes, if/when you’re ready)

Many customers plant without ashes - and that’s just as meaningful.

One thoughtfully packaged kit. Everything arrives together, ready to plant.

Nurturing Your Tribute Tree

• Light: Full sun to partial shade. In cooler regions, more sun brings out the brightest bark and leaf color. In warmer regions, give it afternoon shade to protect the leaves from scorch.
  
• Water: Keep the soil evenly moist, never soggy. A layer of mulch helps keep the roots cool and holds moisture during warm spells.
  
• That is it. Plant it in well drained soil, water when the top inch or two begins to dry, and the Coral Bark Japanese Maple will reward you for years. When in doubt, less water is better than more.

Each moment caring for your tree becomes a quiet act of remembrance.

Optional: Plant with Cremation Ashes - The Treebute® Difference

For those wishing to incorporate cremation ashes, your kit includes the option to add our Treebute® organic soil blend. This specially formulated mixture creates a safe, nurturing foundation for your tree - transforming ashes into living growth. Each winter, as the coral bark glows warmest in the coldest season, you'll see a living reminder that love endures through every season of life.

Your tree is meaningful with or without ashes. This is simply another way to honor someone you love.

Honor Your Loved One in a Way That Lives On

Finding a meaningful way to honor someone you love can feel overwhelming. This is a tree for those who understand that grief has seasons. For a thousand years, Japanese gardeners have turned to this tree to teach this truth: that love doesn't disappear when things feel bare. It just shows up differently.

The act of planting creates meaning. The coral branches hold light through darkness. And love, like warmth, finds a way to glow.