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The elm bonsai is so simple that it turns decay into magic.

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Deciduous trees, up to 25 m tall, with a globose crown. The bark is grayish black, longitudinally split and rough. Branchlets gray, often arranged in two rows. Morphological characteristics like light, cold resistance, drought resistance, not resistant to water and moisture. Can adapt to dry and cool climate; like fertile and moist.

Deciduous trees, up to 25 m tall, with a globose crown. The bark is grayish black, longitudinally split and rough. Branchlets gray, often arranged in two rows.

Morphological characteristics

Like light, cold resistance, drought resistance, not resistant to water and moisture. Can adapt to dry and cool climate; like fertile, moist and well-drained soil, it can also grow faster in dry, barren and light saline-alkali soil.

Elliptic-ovate, apex acute, base slightly crooked, margin simple serrate. The first leaves of the flowers bloom from March to April, purplish brown, clustered on annual branches. Samara suborbicular or Obovate, apex lobed. The seed is located in the center of Samara, and the fruit is ripe from April to May.

The height of the tree in 30 years is 17m, and the DBH is 42cm. The life span can be more than a hundred years. Strong sprouting ability, resistance to pruning, deep main root, developed lateral root, strong wind resistance and soil conservation. It has strong resistance to toxic gases such as smoke and hydrogen fluoride.

Species distribution

Elm is mainly distributed in Northeast, North China, Northwest and Southwest provinces. It is also distributed in North Korea, Russia and Mongolia. Born in slopes, valleys, rivers, hills and sand hills below 1 000-2 500 meters above sea level. It is cultivated in the provinces in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It is also a common tree in the countryside of North China and Huaibei Plain.

Bonsai characteristics

Elm trees, especially the old piles that grow in the wild, have gradually formed many different strange gestures after years of man-made chopping axe chisels, or wind and rain erosion, animal bites and so on. Some are intertwined, vigorous and simple, while others turn decay into magic, withered roots and new leaves, unique caves, and are excellent materials for making bonsai.

 
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