Bonsai Wild Olive

Knowing a little more about the wild oliveit could be easier to differentiate and thus know if what you visualize is a wild olive orolive.

Bonsai wild olive. Olea oleaster a wild olive whose cultivar olivastro is used as rootstock for o. Wild olive olea yamadori 8 years 9 months ago 981 i have been told and have seen many other experienced local bonsai growers that river sand encorages the fine root system to grow once it has been recently potted. Hi i have recently acquired an olive bonsai collected from the wild around 2 weeks ago. Wild olive bonsai tree olea sylvestris is a small leaf variety of olive tree native to mediterranean regions.

For bonsai you can use cultivated varieties but the wild olive bonsai olea europaea sylvestris has the advantage of very tiny leaves and short internodes. Good examples will have spectacular bark and natural deadwood. Nebari is 14 cm. This is the first part of a series of 3 articles by walter pall on the subject of collecting wild trees yamadori.

I have been watering the soil roughly once a day when i see that it is completely dry. It is prized for it s small leaf form and also it s vigorous growth and fast development. It s a common shrub in mediterranean soil. The leaves have started to curl which would indicate that it is drying out.

Originally printed in bonsai today 74 75 and 76 these articles fueled my own ambition to collect old wild trees for use as bonsai. Yamadori wild olive bonsai material olea sylvestris is a small leaf variety of olive tree native to mediterranean regions. The wild oliveis a shrub found in the family of olive trees is very similar and often tend to be confused by people. The olive tree s small stature naturally aged bark and the gnarled and twisted appearance of their trunk and branches make it very conducive for bonsai.

The european olive produces flowers on its second year s branch growth. 23 x 23 x h. By far the best type for bonsai cultivation. In many cases yamadori oleasters possess beautiful natural deadwood and a lovely rough bark that indicates a high age and survival in hostile conditions.

Olives are incredibly robust trees that are perfect for bonsai cultivation. It is prized for it s small leaf form and also it s vigorous growth and fast development. Olives are incredibly robust trees that are perfect for bonsai cultivation. Wild olive bonsai tree olea oleaster in an unglazed square pot in natural gres.