Blue Japanese Wisteria Bonsai

Growing to 9 m 30 ft it is a woody deciduous twining climber.

Blue japanese wisteria bonsai. Wisteria floribunda common name japanese wisteria is a species of flowering plant in the pea family fabaceae native to japan. It is a hardy tree therefore needs to be grown outdoors. One way to contain your wisteria is to start growing wisteria in pots. The flowers carry a distinctive fragrance similar to that of grapes.

The long velvety seed pods can literally explode and catapult their seeds out when they get ripe. With proper attention to the care and propagation of a wisteria bonsai the cascading form shows off the pink purple. Container grown wisteria work well as free standing plants with appropriate and regular pruning. Japanese wisteria bonsai tree scientific name wisteria floribunda is a deciduous shrub with dark green leaves and gray brown trunk.

Forest service invasive plants list. The trunk is also curved and may have between one to three different sections. Since then it has become one of the most highly romanticized flowering garden plants. They can reach nearly half a meter in length.

The branches and trunk are both. It was brought from japan to the united states in the 1830s. These fast growing climbing trees develop into gorgeous bonsai under the right conditions. They can reach 30 feet 9 m tall with a spread of up to 60 feet 18 m when planted against a wall.

The deciduous wisteria is hardy to u s. Japanese wisteria can grow over 30m long over many supports via powerful clockwise twining stems. These racemes burst into great trails of clustered blue flowers in early to mid spring. It sports the longest flower racemes of any wisteria.

Department of agriculture zones 5 to 9. When in bloom this bonsai will stop anyone in their tracks. With its shiny bright green foliage which falls in the autumn and fragrant pea like purple flowers dangling in clusters this bonsai tree is a magnificent show stopper when in bloom and will bloom in considerable shade. For bonsai the most common species are the chinese wisteria wisteria sinensis and the japanese wisteria wisteria floribunda which produces the longest flower clusters.

The rapid growth thickens the truck very quickly making the tree look very old. Most widely planted wisteria in the u s. Very showy purple or white pea like fragrant flowers grow in long hanging clusters. The wisteria tree is often used in bonsai because of the clumps of fragrant flowers it produces.

Seed pods and seed are poisonous.