Chinese Tallow Bonsai

It created the look of an ancient old tree of several hundred years old.

Chinese tallow bonsai. Historically tallow has been an important crop in china for centuries because of its oil production. Chinese tallow triadica sebifera is a popular ornamental tree used in gardens in the southeast u s. Ginkgo trees produce a fruit that to put it plainly stinks. Get during autumn so you can check leaf color.

Bunjin penjing project chinese tallow post by fengz july 1st 2020 2 44 am so far a fair amount of the branching was dead this is what remains the thicker section heading up is still alive and under the rotting wood was a lot of hard heartwood so i won t gauge it all out just yet see what i have to work with. There is alot of difference of opinion on whether tallow is a tree that is appreciated in the united states. On one of these trips i saw a few older ones that i thought would make good bonsais. The wood is very soft and prone to rot and they seem to be short lived trees.

Chinese tallow tree phoenix bonsai society. They are very invasive in the southern coastal plain. I am begining to understand why there are not more chinese tallows as bonsai trees. Once they fall in the ground and people start stepping on them it s not a good situation.

Chinese tallow tree and camellia rescue. Tree exudes an allelopathic chemical which prevents growth of other types of plants so don t use in multi culture forests. Prev next. Chinese tallow trees may look harmless but they re actually pretty invasive and will take over your yard like weeds.

Sapium sebiferum a d x. The key words there are in the united states. Never attempted to grow them as bonsai but my parents had them sprout up in their yard. Bunjin penjing project chinese tallow post by fengz today 2 44 am so far a fair amount of the branching was dead this is what remains the thicker section heading up is still alive and under the rotting wood was a lot of hard heartwood so i won t gauge it all out just yet see what i have to work with.

The tree was collected from the wild in madura east java indonesia in 1985. Since then it was put in a pot and trained into a bonsai. It averages 20 feet in height and is typically considered a small to medium sized tree but some trees reach heights of 40 to 50 feet. Chinese tallow are a major invasive species in the southern us and are especially bad here in louisiana.

Time rain and sun has rotten all the woods in the trunks. Chinese tallow marshadori question about usual growth. Last year i started pulling up seedlings along the river by my house and was able to get over 1600 in three days.