Jeffrey Pine Bonsai
Trees acquired about 1980 as nursery stock from east bay nursery.
Jeffrey pine bonsai. Grow your own jeffrey pine pinus jeffreyi a massive butterscotch smelling conifer from the western u s. If your seedling perishes we are happy to provide a replacement small sized seedling for just the cost of shipping handling 4 60 seed grown without poison or pesticides at our nursery on california s redwood coast. Its leaves are blue green and it grows in mountains of california oregon neveda baja at elevations above digger pine. There is one example of the jeffrey pine on page 239 of the john naka book bonsai techniques ii a collected tree as for the whitebark pine if collectors focused on this tree i am sure collected specimens could be located and collected for the most part the pine of choice collected from the wild is the ponderosa pine tom.
The natural climate zones would be from zone 1 to 4. The presence of these buds offers a clue as to how jeffrey pines can develop as bonsai. The more strong branches the tree has the more lateral buds it will develop. Pinus jeffreyi is tolerant of most environmental conditions except smog nothing seems to tolerate it jeffery does tolerate it for the first 50 years of its life.
Like the ponderosa pine the needles grow in sets of three. The jeffrey pine pinus jeffreyi is native to the mountains of the far west from southern oregon to mexico and eastward to western nevada. In 1949 frank bought a new car and went to the sierra nevada where he collected this pine. Jeffery pine pinus jeffreyi is a 60 conifer.
Jeffrey pine jeffrey pines are high altitude trees native to california.