Brazilian Pepper Tree Bonsai

Houseplants should be placed in an east south or west window with filtered sunlight.

Brazilian pepper tree bonsai. Thriving in a rust red matte bonsai pot. Use grow lights up to 12 hours per day. The branches can be upright reclining or nearly vine like all on the same plant. Green all year at least in s.

The brazilian rain tree was first created as bonsai in the u s. From seed grown by the late jim moody of jupiter florida. It does invade our wild city canyons as do many other trees such as canary island palms fan palms eucalyptus etc. The only real difference is where to leave cut on the leaf structure to get proper backbudding and pad building.

It must be protected from temperatures below 10 c 50 f. It was good to see that in terms of basic bonsai maintenance brazilian pepper trees fall pretty much like any deciduous tree. The seeds were brought to him in 1978 by his sister in law. It is a fast grower even in poor soil and casts a dense shade.

When jim saw what a beautiful tree developed from his seeds he also began propagating it from cuttings. The chinese pepper which is also called sichuan pepper grows in many parts of asia and is especially common in the himalaya japan and korea. She was a nurse at the american embassy in brazil. Brazilian rain bonsai tree 8672 this one of a kind brazilian rain tree grows unique foliage that looks like raindrops falling off of her branches.

This unique and beautiful brazilian rain tree grows a perfect canopy shape with her arm branches blooming special foliage that resembles raindrops. State county and city governments cut them down with vigilance but the tree is nearly impossible to kill and new shoots will spring up from stumps in just a couple of weeks. The chinese pepper is a subtropical tree with small paripinnate leaves which is very common as indoor bonsai. In florida the brazilian pepper tree is an invasive species and is hated by all those floridians who posses even a fundamental knowledge of gardening landscaping or environmental conservation.

Brazilian peppertree is a sprawling shrub or small tree with a shallow root system reaching a height of 7 10 m. Tropical and subtropical varieties can be left outside when temperatures stay above 45 f. Plant varieties that do well as indoor bonsai include ficus fukien tea jade serissa podocarpus schefflera and norfolk pine. Let it grow and trim back hard.

Thriving in a light brown bonsai pot. Its plastic morphology allows it to thrive in all kinds of ecosystems.