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The shaping of bonsai with Chinese wolfberry

Published: 2024-11-24 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/24, Chinese wolfberry, also known as cat thorn, wolfbone holly, holly belongs to small evergreen trees or shrubs. The bark is gray and slippery, with dense branchlets. Simple leaves alternate, elliptic moment round, leathery, with 5 hard spines, bright surface, dark green. Flowers yellowish green, born in axils of leaves. Drupe globose, bright red

Ilex also known as cat thorn, holly holly, holly family is evergreen small trees or shrubs. Bark is ashen white, smooth, branchlet is born closely and spread. Simple leaf alternate unripe, elliptic rectangle circle, leathery qualitative, have 5 hard thorn tooth, the surface is bright, dark green. Flowers yellow green, born in leaf axils. Drupe globose, bright red.

Chinese holly originated from the middle and lower reaches of the yangtze river in china. It is a subtropical tree species. It is often born under mountain forests. It is shade-tolerant, likes warm and humid climate, and is suitable for slightly acidic fertile and humid soil. It has strong germination and is extremely resistant to pruning.

After survival, the holly can be made into different forms of bonsai such as lying dry, inclined dry and curved dry according to the shape of stumps. The shape of crown should be determined according to varieties. For the big leaf holly, the natural style can be adopted. Pay attention to the proper density and arrangement of leaves, branches and crown. It can be slightly twisted and pulled, but it is not necessary to trim into regular round shape; For the small leaf holly, it can be trimmed into round shape or processed into sparse natural shape.

The panza modeling of holly should be carried out in early summer. Bonsai can be made in the spring of the second year into a fine pot ornamental, pot soil should be used good drainage, loose fertile slightly acidic soil.

Ilex cornuta branches hard crisp, usually in the rainy season, sap flow exuberant period for processing. Because its leaves are large and hard, it is generally good to use brown wire climbing, not to use metal wire climbing, otherwise it is easy to cause branches and leaves to break. The leaves are hard and pointed. When modeling, unnecessary branches and leaves can be cut off first, and the remaining branches can be clipped and trimmed.

The tree shape of Chinese holly can be made into straight type, inclined dry type, curved type and cliff type. Small potted plants are best in nature, large potted plants can tie branches and leaves into clouds, and ancient pile scenes appear in a hanging root and dry posture.

Time: 2019-06-13 Click:

 
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