Jeffrey Pine Bonsai

The more strong branches the tree has the more lateral buds it will develop.
Jeffrey pine bonsai. Pinus jeffreyi is tolerant of most environmental conditions except smog nothing seems to tolerate it jeffery does tolerate it for the first 50 years of its life. Its leaves are blue green and it grows in mountains of california oregon neveda baja at elevations above digger pine. In 1949 frank bought a new car and went to the sierra nevada where he collected this pine. If your seedling perishes we are happy to provide a replacement small sized seedling for just the cost of shipping handling 4 60 seed grown without poison or pesticides at our nursery on california s redwood coast.
When the tree quickly regains vigor it not only produces longer buds and needles but also encourages lateral buds to form wherever there are lots of needles. Jeffery pine pinus jeffreyi is a 60 conifer. 170 jeffrey pine on rock pinus jeffreyi donated by frank fujitani long time member of yamato bonsai club of san leandro. The presence of these buds offers a clue as to how jeffrey pines can develop as bonsai.
Jeffrey pine jeffrey pines are high altitude trees native to california. Trees acquired about 1980 as nursery stock from east bay nursery. There is one example of the jeffrey pine on page 239 of the john naka book bonsai techniques ii a collected tree as for the whitebark pine if collectors focused on this tree i am sure collected specimens could be located and collected for the most part the pine of choice collected from the wild is the ponderosa pine tom. The species natural elevational range is 5000 to 8000 feet in the north and 6000 to 9000 feet in the south.
Like the ponderosa pine the needles grow in sets of three.