Crossword Puzzle #2 Solution

 Here's the original Crossword Puzzle #2 on Japanese maple cultivars and related botanical terms, followed by the solution:

Across

1 Famously popular maple in America

5 Weeping green Acer palmatum

7 Also known as 'Chiba yatsubusa'

11 "Hill" in Japanese

12 Acer palmatum '___ shidare'

13 "Heaven" in Japanese

15 "Bark" or "River" in Japanese

16 Acer shir 'Mr Sun's' leaves resemble sun ___

17 Japanese god

19 "Glowing Evening Sky" in Japanese

23 "Blue-green" in Japanese

24 Name means "bright moon" in Japanese

25 Originated as a seedling from Acer palmatum 'Alpenweiss'

27 "Female" in Japanese

28 Red, upright linearlobum

29 Name means "umbrella mountain" in Japanese

34 Mane of a mythical lion

37 Named for Buchholz Nursery employee

40 "Floating _____" common name for Acer palmatum 'Ukigumo'

41 The origin of many Japanese maple cultivars

43 Acer palmatum '______ Sunrise'

44 Glamorous female performer

47 "Elegance" in Japanese

48 Scion____

50 "Gold" in Japanese

52 "Small" in Japanese

53 "Land of the Rising Sun"

54 Acer palmatum '___ nishiki'

56 "Light-green" in Japanese

60 "Purple" in Japanese

62 J.D. Vertrees introduction

63 Deep-green laceleaf

64 Winged Fruit

67 Named for a type of azalea

74 Place name for variegated cultivar

77 Acer palmatum '___ hime'

79 Dwarf, compact

82 Cultivar of Acer pictum

Down

1 Acer palmatum '______ Beauty'

2 Sake cup

3 Acer palmatum '__ Brown'

4 Acer palmatum '___ tsuma gaki'

6 Acer palmatum 'Kasagi ____'

8 "Soft drizzle" in Japanese

9 A green laceleaf, A.p. 'Green ______'

10 The "Prince's maple"

12 "Lion" in Japanese

14 Red cloth, red background

15 "Hairy" in Japanese

18 New moon (sickle-shape)

20 Acer japonicum '__ jutan'

21 Variegated or rough

22 Acer palmatum '_____ hair'

24 "Gathering," as in A.p. '____kumo'

26 ___ Loukes, late Oregon maple grower

28 "Splendor, glory" in Japanese

30 Acer palmatum '______ Ghost'

31 "Early Evening" in Japanese

32 Cascading or weeping

33 "Colored"

35 Acer oliverianum '___ Blonde'

36 "Multicolored" in Japanese

38 Name means "mountain white"

39 Acer shirasawanum 'Bronze ___'

42 "Coral-Bark" in Japanese

45 "Thunder" in Japanese

46 "Rough," as in rough bark

49 Trident maple with incurved leaf lobes

50 "Peacock"

51 Acer palmatum '______ nishiki', a variegated laceleaf

55 Descendant

57 "Boulder" in Japanese

58 "Ball," as in Acer palmatum '____ shishi'

59 Acer palmatum '____ Knight'

61 "Red" in Japanese

62 Fabric woven with gold threads

64 Acer palmatum 'Manyo no ____'

65 Acer buergerianum '____ yatsubusa'

66 Dark, red-colored gem

67 "Web" - as in spider

68 Acer palmatum 'Dragon _____'

69 Acer palmatum '___ midori'

70 "___ leaf" - common name for "laceleaf"

71 "Thin" in Japanese

72 "Autumn" in Japanese

73 "Dance" in Japanese

75 ___ Buddhism

76 "Of, from" in Japanese

78 Means "east," as in Japanese capital

80 Abbreviation for maple-cultivar prefix

81 Acer palmatum 'Ina__' - Japanese for "leaves"

83 "Five" in Japanese