Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage. Paperbark Maple is a multi-stemmed deciduous tree with a shapely oval form. The peeling antique red bark is extremely showy and adds significant winter interest. The compound leaves turn outstanding shades of orange and antique red in the fall. Paperbark Maple has dark green deciduous foliage on a tree with an oval habit of growth. This small ornamental tree is renowned for its exfoliating (peeling) bark in cinnamon red, pink and tan, along wth good fall color an extremely high value accent tree for the winter landscape