Tansu Japanese Cedar Bonsai

A perfect sculptural addition to asian gardens rock gardens miniature gardens and containers and a fine candidate for bonsai cryptomeria japonica tansu is a dwarf japanese cedar with an interesting and attractive shape that resembles a jagged mountain outline.

Tansu japanese cedar bonsai. One of the smallest and slowest growing evergreens you re going to find. Japonica tansu this japanese cedar is an evergreen conifer with fine curved needles that are green in summer and take on striking bronze or purplish tones in winter. Cryptomeria is much loved in japan as an ornamental and as a bonsai. Tansu is among the smallest of the cryptomeria.

It grows very slowly into a wide pyramid of dainty green needles. Cryptomeria bonsai tree medium. A perfect sculptural addition to rock garden or container. The plant displays bronze tones during the winter.

Vic and our friend will grouper52 both have excellent examples of cryptomeria. Features light green slow growing needles. Forms an incredibly dense tight ball of fine needle like foliage resembles a green porcupine ideal for bonsai or for rock garden detail as with all japanese cedars this dwarf needs good drainage and medium moisture. Adding only 2 to 3 inches in size per year tansu takes on a broad pyramidal form that in 10 years might reach 3 to 4 feet in height and 3 feet wide.

The deep green foliage is quite congested and it makes a wonderful plant for bonsai. The tansu dwarf form of cryptomeria japonica has lovely light green tiny wedge shaped spikes and reddish brown peeling bark. Arrives in 4 grower s pot. Cryptomeria japonica tansu is a light green slow growing dwarf with pointed needles and a coarsely textured broad upright habit that mimics in miniature a jagged mountain outline.

A perfect bonsai for those who tend to overwater their plants this cedar like tree will thrive in conditions that other plants would rot from. Protect from winter winds. Although it is called the japanese cedar it is not a true cedar cedrus. The japanese used to still do i guess make tansu chests out of this wood.

Tansu is among the smallest of the cryptomeria. Branches usually persist on the tree with old specimens branched to the ground. Tansu with exhibit bronze tones in winter and should be protected from cold dry winter wind. Cryptomeria japonica tansu this dwarf conifer forms a very dense small shrub.

From what i have learned from additonal sources is that they do in deed back bud on old wood but only in some varieties. It is slow growing barely reaching 60cm in the first 10 years. It has compact blue green foliage and peeling red bark. It grows very slowly into a wide pyramid of dainty green needles.