This tree is also one of the faster growing Japanese Maples, so it will not be too long before your Coral Japanese Maple is a substantial plant of beauty in your garden. The leaves are reliably purple-red all summer, turning crimson in fall. Fall color is gold to red on this special tree. Sherwood Flame is remarkable not only for its beautiful red leaves all summer, but for also having the most vibrant fall display of all the red-leaf forms. In the fall, the delicate 5-lobed leaves which open pinkish-yellow, and mature to light green in summer, warm up to a soft yellow in fall before they shed to the ground.