Jade Plant Bonsai Styles

Guided by the plant s natural structure ideal styles.

Jade plant bonsai styles. How to start your crassula bonsai. There are several smaller versions of crassula that work well and other similar plants like elephants food with their rubbery stems and tiny leaves. The jade bonsai is able to withstand aggressive pruning. The jade plant has thick glossy deep green oval shaped leaves and thick brown stems.

You can train your. Styles of jade bonsai trees jade plant as bonsai. Prune your jade bonsai to shape it. Find a pot that is large enough to allow the jade plant to grow it should be slightly wider and deeper than the.

Crassula the jade plant is particularly great to use for bonsai with its tree like form and ability to withstand considerable rough treatment. About jade bonsai formal upright style the jade tree plant is part of a plant classification known as succulents. The jade plant s fleshy leaves and swollen trunk lend interest to a miniaturized display and can be adapted even by a beginner bonsai hobbyist. However in recent years the use of the jade plant crassula ovata and dwarf jade plant portulacaria afra have been recognized as excellent bonsai substitutes.

Pear shaped glossy green leaves that are flattened yet succulent characterize the jade plant. Like the formal upright this bonsai style creates an approximately triangular tree shape but. However they are perfect for a beginning bonsai enthusiast.