Box Elder Maple Bonsai

I collected it last year from the front garden.
Box elder maple bonsai. A quick progression in photos with some minor descriptions. But they take well to pot culture make graceful bonsai and their compound leaves do reduce in size. However they also seem to handle typical bonsai training and even overly aggressive root and top pruning. I collected this boxelder in 2019 and started working on it as soon as it grew a set of branches.
Read on for additional boxelder tree information. Boxelders prefer a cooler soil with humus and as a bonsai needs a mix of clay sand and compost in equal parts. Boxelder acer negundo is a fast growing maple tree native to this country. Boxelder or ash leaf maple is not often seen as a bonsai subject.
The growth is generally quite coarse and relatively large compound leaves. Boxelder acer negundo is not a common material for bonsai. Older plants need more clay. This is october.
The tree is sometimes crafted into a bonsai specimen but often used as a screen windbreak and for land reclamation. This is my first tree. Acer negundo the box elder boxelder maple manitoba maple or ash leaved maple is a species of maple native to north america. Boxelder grows in usda hardiness zones 3 through 8 and is native to north america.
It is a fast growing short lived tree with opposite compound leaves. It grows rapidly can become very large and needs a lot of space. If you put the tree in a flat pot you should create a drainage layer of around 0 3inch 1cm in height. Manitoba maple bonsai april 2015 duration.
As they mature they develop a rough tan bark. I thought it was a red maple but then i got the three leaflets develop and realized that it was something else. It is an acer negundo or boxelder maple. Not much to say about the tree at this point.