Chinese Tallow Bonsai
Time rain and sun has rotten all the woods in the trunks.
Chinese tallow bonsai. On one of these trips i saw a few older ones that i thought would make good bonsais. The tree was collected from the wild in madura east java indonesia in 1985. Get during autumn so you can check leaf color. Since then it was put in a pot and trained into a bonsai.
Last year i started pulling up seedlings along the river by my house and was able to get over 1600 in three days. The wood is very soft and prone to rot and they seem to be short lived trees. Ginkgo trees produce a fruit that to put it plainly stinks. I am begining to understand why there are not more chinese tallows as bonsai trees.
No high nitrogen fertilizer in autumn. Once they fall in the ground and people start stepping on them it s not a good situation. They are very invasive in the southern coastal plain. It averages 20 feet in height and is typically considered a small to medium sized tree but some trees reach heights of 40 to 50 feet.
Sapium sebiferum a d x. Bunjin penjing project chinese tallow post by fengz july 1st 2020 2 44 am so far a fair amount of the branching was dead this is what remains the thicker section heading up is still alive and under the rotting wood was a lot of hard heartwood so i won t gauge it all out just yet see what i have to work with. Tree exudes an allelopathic chemical which prevents growth of other types of plants so don t use in multi culture forests. Prev next.
Chinese tallow tree phoenix bonsai society. The key words there are in the united states. The cordate or heart shaped form of chinese tallow leaves will remind you of poplar aspen and thanks to their elongated tail like leaf apexes a bodhi tree ficus religiosa as well. Bunjin penjing project chinese tallow post by fengz today 2 44 am so far a fair amount of the branching was dead this is what remains the thicker section heading up is still alive and under the rotting wood was a lot of hard heartwood so i won t gauge it all out just yet see what i have to work with.
Chinese tallow marshadori question about usual growth. Chinese tallow is fast growing with broad ovate leaves that change colors in the fall. It created the look of an ancient old tree of several hundred years old. Chinese tallow trees may look harmless but they re actually pretty invasive and will take over your yard like weeds.
Chinese tallow are a major invasive species in the southern us and are especially bad here in louisiana. Historically tallow has been an important crop in china for centuries because of its oil production. Chinese tallow triadica sebifera is a popular ornamental tree used in gardens in the southeast u s.