Lime Berry Bonsai

Eaten raw and used in beverages.
Lime berry bonsai. Triphasia trifolia native to java indonesia. The limeberry has gained some popularity as a bonsai plant. Limeberry can be grown in usda zones 9b 11 or grown in a greenhouse. The top hat is a slow grower that producers tasty blueberries.
A bonsai tree can grow small or full sized citrus fruit. The art of bonsai is a wonderful hobby for people. Especially popular are the bonsai orange tree and the bonsai lemon tree. This tree is also considered a weed in other introduced locations.
Meyer lemon trees citrus meyeri and calamondin orange trees c. Key lime bonsai tree. That said information on the hardiness of limeberry is disputed with some sources stating that upon maturity limeberry will survive frosty temperatures and others avowing the plants are far less hardy than citrus and must be greenhouse grown. Limeberry plants make excellent bonsai plants or almost impenetrable hedges as well as specimen plants.
Citrus trees must be protected from temperatures below 10 c 50 f. Meyer lemon bears full size. A great candidate for this is the top hat blueberry. Top hat grows what look like old gnarly branches and it has small leaves.
Transforming a bush like lime berry to look like an old tree growing on a hill. Limeberry or limoncillo as it is called in puerto rico makes excellent tropical bonsai material. In true tropical locations limeberry may have some promise as a potential commercial fruit crop. Has small red colored berry like edible fruit with acidic lime flavored flesh.
If you need help identifying your tree try our bonsai tree identification guide. Great bonsai tree for indoor use. In this video is a pruning work of a lime berry planted on rock. Citrus aurantifolia 99 95in stock.
To get larger trunks use collected material if possible. However very few people have an edible bonsai. The photos i have inserted are from the collection of budi sulistyo of indonesia. Follow us on social media.
It is smaller seedier has a higher acidity a stronger aroma and a thinner rind than that of the more common persian lime. Mitis are good citrus trees for bonsai. Also known as mexican lime or bartender s lime has a globose fruit 1 2 that is yellow when ripe but usually picked green.