Bonsai Wild Olive

Wild olive olea yamadori 8 years 9 months ago 981 i have been told and have seen many other experienced local bonsai growers that river sand encorages the fine root system to grow once it has been recently potted.

Bonsai wild olive. The european olive produces flowers on its second year s branch growth. Olives are incredibly robust trees that are perfect for bonsai cultivation. The olive tree s small stature naturally aged bark and the gnarled and twisted appearance of their trunk and branches make it very conducive for bonsai. Wild olive bonsai tree olea sylvestris is a small leaf variety of olive tree native to mediterranean regions.

It is prized for it s small leaf form and also it s vigorous growth and fast development. Formerly classified as the subspecies o. By far the best type for bonsai cultivation. Hi i have recently acquired an olive bonsai collected from the wild around 2 weeks ago.

Tiny leaves vertical growing twigs when mature. The wild oliveis a shrub found in the family of olive trees is very similar and often tend to be confused by people. Yamadori wild olive bonsai material olea sylvestris is a small leaf variety of olive tree native to mediterranean regions. I have been watering the soil roughly once a day when i see that it is completely dry.

The leaves have started to curl which would indicate that it is drying out. Wild olive bonsai tree olea oleaster in an unglazed square pot in natural gres. This is the first part of a series of 3 articles by walter pall on the subject of collecting wild trees yamadori. For bonsai you can use cultivated varieties but the wild olive bonsai olea europaea sylvestris has the advantage of very tiny leaves and short internodes.

Olives are incredibly robust trees that are perfect for bonsai cultivation. Olea oleaster a wild olive whose cultivar olivastro is used as rootstock for o. Knowing a little more about the wild oliveit could be easier to differentiate and thus know if what you visualize is a wild olive orolive. Nebari is 14 cm.

23 x 23 x h. The plant is high. It s a common shrub in mediterranean soil. It is prized for it s small leaf form and also it s vigorous growth and fast development.