Corokia Cotoneaster Bonsai

Cotoneaster is a tender to frost hardy rounded densely branching evergreen shrub with tiny broadly ovate dark green leaves and from late spring to early summer small fragrant star shaped bright yellow flowers followed by oblong red or yellow fruit.

Corokia cotoneaster bonsai. The birds are now extinct and we are left with this shrub as a natural bonsai. Why its not a cotoneaster at all in fact corokia is a member of the dogwood family and evolved its twisted zigzagging stems and small leaves to fend off grazing by giant birds in new zealand. Origin the zigzag shrub belongs to the escalloniaceae family and originally comes from the bushes and forests of new zealand. Nevertheless it is slowly but surely developing into an absolute trend plant.

Pot may vary depending on availability. The cotoneaster is in bloom form may to june. Il fut décrit pour la première fois en 1840 par etienne raoul un chirurgien et botaniste français. The correct pronounciation is cot own e aster.

This produces a shrub with contorted stems and branches usually covered with black bark. The leaves are smaller but similar in colour to corokia buddleoides. Full sun to part shade. This easy care somewhat bizarrely growing houseplant has not been on the market for very long.

This plant is used to cross with c. Corokia cotoneaster at uc botanical garden berkeley as a slow growing shrub it attains a height of 3 meters 8 ft and width of 2 meters 7 ft but would take a very long time to do that in the pnw. Cotoneaster microphyllus is an excellent subject for bonsai particularly shohin and mame size bonsai with its minute leaf size readiness to respond to hard pruning prolific flowering and berrying. Buddleoides to produce a hybrid called corokia x vircata.

The cotoneaster bonsai is characterized by its small leaves and beautiful berry like flowers that it produces. Cotoneaster cotoneaster lucidus the cotoneaster also called the hedge cotoneaster or shiny cotoneaster is native to parts of northern asia and adapted to tolerate colder weather. Corokia cotoneaster is a highly branched shrub with a strongly divaricating habit with rough dark colored bark usually growing to about 3 m in height. Il est également recherché pour être cultivé en bonsaï.

Cotoneaster is frequently mispronounced as cotton easter. It has small oval dark green leaves changing to yellow orange and red in autumn. Common variable shrubs with thin gray zig zag twigs that contain small white clusters underneath with dented or rounded edges and on flat black petioles. To 4 tall and 3 wide.

Found in rocky scrubby areas in its native range in new zealand this plant is tolerant of very dry conditions and takes full or filtered sun.