Australian Tea Tree Bonsai

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Australian tea tree bonsai. The tree was grown on in a large pot. A white flowered naturally arching variety which makes a good cascade or weeping bonsai. Yes they grow in a sunburned country but a lot of them like a lot of water and it is often necessary to keep some species in water trays especially in the summer. Log in sign up.

San jose ca zone 9b intermediate. Repot on the hottest day of the year. Log in or. This callitris glaucophylla was collected during a dig following the australian associated bonsai club national seminar held in wagga wagga new south wales in 1999.

The featured image above a coastal tea tree leptospermum laevigatum is one of lee s australian native bonsai. Continual pinching back of new growth has kept the foliage to a rounded shape. The botanical name of this bonsai is leptospermum nitidum cooper sheen and is so named because of the cooper sheen of its new growth which can be seen in the photo. You go to a mountain especially or a coastal area where you might have a windswept tree like this tea tree over here and you get a striking sculptural form and you think oh that s really.

Australian tea tree. A white flowered naturally arching variety which makes a good cascade or weeping bonsai. The pot selected is from adelaide bonsai pottery south australia. The fukien tea is still very popular for penjing in china and in western countries it is a common indoor bonsai tree.

It is also endemic in parts of japan indonesia taiwan and australia. It is more hardy than the species to 0f and also much more tolerant of branch and root pruning. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The fukien tea is originally from china and it was named after the province fukien in chinese fuijan.

The coastal tea tree was purchased as a stock tree from the victorian native bonsai show and was subsequently styled.