Corokia Cotoneaster Bonsai

Common variable shrubs with thin gray zig zag twigs that contain small white clusters underneath with dented or rounded edges and on flat black petioles.

Corokia cotoneaster bonsai. The cotoneaster is a deciduous medium sized tree with long spreading branches. Full sun to part shade. To 4 tall and 3 wide. Cotoneaster is frequently mispronounced as cotton easter.

Nevertheless it is slowly but surely developing into an absolute trend plant. Bonsai measures 8 10 in height and arrives in a 6 l by 4 w by 2 h ceramic pot. Found in rocky scrubby areas in its native range in new zealand this plant is tolerant of very dry conditions and takes full or filtered sun. This plant is used to cross with c.

This produces a shrub with contorted stems and branches usually covered with black bark. Pot may vary depending on availability. The correct pronounciation is cot own e aster. Cotoneaster is a tender to frost hardy rounded densely branching evergreen shrub with tiny broadly ovate dark green leaves and from late spring to early summer small fragrant star shaped bright yellow flowers followed by oblong red or yellow fruit.

The birds are now extinct and we are left with this shrub as a natural bonsai. The cotoneaster bonsai is characterized by its small leaves and beautiful berry like flowers that it produces. It has small oval dark green leaves changing to yellow orange and red in autumn. Le corokia est un arbuste idéal dans les jardins secs et de bord de mer en haie ou massif arbustif.

Il fut décrit pour la première fois en 1840 par etienne raoul un chirurgien et botaniste français. This easy care somewhat bizarrely growing houseplant has not been on the market for very long. The cotoneaster is in bloom form may to june. Buddleoides to produce a hybrid called corokia x vircata.

Il est également recherché pour être cultivé en bonsaï. Why its not a cotoneaster at all in fact corokia is a member of the dogwood family and evolved its twisted zigzagging stems and small leaves to fend off grazing by giant birds in new zealand. Origin the zigzag shrub belongs to the escalloniaceae family and originally comes from the bushes and forests of new zealand. Cotoneaster cotoneaster lucidus the cotoneaster also called the hedge cotoneaster or shiny cotoneaster is native to parts of northern asia and adapted to tolerate colder weather.

Corokia cotoneaster is a highly branched shrub with a strongly divaricating habit with rough dark colored bark usually growing to about 3 m in height.