Japanese red lace maple

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Question

Japanese Red Maple Last Fall I pruned the tree and cleaned up the deadwood. Our winter in northern Illinois was extremely cold and also more snow and wind than the usual winter. In the last 3-4 weeks, the tree has not fully leafed as it has always done in past springs. As the picture shows, there are leaves on the lower branches and a few sprouting on upper trunk. Help! Is there hope for this tree?

Answer
Check and see if the tree is still alive--start near the end of an upper branch and scrape a small bit of bark off the branch and if the color under the bark is green the branch is still alive. If the color is brown not green the branch is dead at this point on the Brach. If not green continue down the branch scraping at intervals until you find green of reach the trunk. Try other branches if no green is found the tree is dead. Since there are a few leaves you could just wait and see if the tree does leaf out. I would expect that you may have some leafing out but most of the limbs will be dead. After it leafs out you can prune the dead parts off.

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