30 August 2009

Japanese Zelkova (Zelkova serrata)


Japanese Gray-Bark Elm
Zelkova serrata
Japanese zelkova, sawtooth zelkova, sawleaf zelkova

Zelkova (zell-KOE-vuh)
serrata (sair-AY-tuh)
榉树 ju shu Keyaki

Family: Ulmaceae (elm Family)

Japanese zelkova is a favorite subject for bonsai and should be grown outdoors year round. They are known for their exfoliating gray and orange bark, small leaves, and handsome fall color.







A Japanese Zelkova (Zelkova serrata) bonsai on display
at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum at the United States National Arboretum.
According to the tree's display placard, it has been in training since 1895.
It was donated by Yoshibumi Itoigawa.







Zelkova serrata (Japanese grey-bark elm) are related and quite similar to Ulmus parvifolia (Chinese elm). The zelkova is deciduous; the Chinese elm is semi-tropical. Zelkovas are often misidentified to get around import restrictions. They can be distinguished by their unwinged fruits and their leaves which are symmetrical rather than uneven at their bases.









The Japanese zelkova is an important timber tree. The close-grained wood is used in fine furniture. Japanese zelkova makes a good shade tree and is tolerant of heat, drought, wind, and urban conditions.

The "Noma Keyaki" is a 1,000-year old Zelkova tree, 25 m tall, and 11.95 m trunk circumference.




Along the shaded path to Haeinsa Temple,
one passes the stump of a zelkova tree
planted in the ninth century.

Haeinsa Temple “Reflection on a calm sea"
Janggyeong Panjeon





















In the third year of King Ae-jang, the 40th king of the
Shilla Dynasty (802AD) when Queen Ae-jang’s
incurable illness was completely cured by the prayers of both monks, Sun-eung and Li-jong,
King Ae-jang contributed lots of temples, sermon halls, and hermitages
and thereby established Haeinsa in return for the favour.
And in commemoration of this, the Gosamok is said to have been planted.
The zelkova tree has grown along with Haeinsa over a period of some 1,200 years
to wither and die in 1945, and now only the base of the trunk remains,
showing the long history of Haeinsa.





























Haeinsa (해인사) temple is one of the most beautiful in Korea, due to its location deep in Gayasan National Park. The temple is famous for housing the Tripitaka Koreana – 80,000 wooden printing blocks carved during the Goryo Dynasty (AD 918-1392), which, together, make up the oldest and best-preserved collection of Buddhist scriptures in the world.


Pictures of Haeinsa

Japanese bonsai experts were astonished

Million-dollar ancient trees

Some Japanese bonsai experts who came to Vietnam for a seminar
on ornamental trees were astonished when they learned that there
were old trees selling for millions of US dollars in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge



More Articles about these Trees:

Exploring Ha Noi's village roots
Interestingly, these Vietnamese 'super trees' are not very valuable in the eyes of Japanese bonsai experts. And, likewise, Japanese bonsais are not valuable to Vietnamese experts.

Vietnamese tree collection is worth $17.64m

Nghi Tam is famous nationwide for its traditional occupations of flower and bonsai growing and ornamental fish farming.

Bonsai have been grown in Nghi Tam since 1228 when a villager bought saplings from a Chinese trader to plant in his village.

19 August 2009

Tropical Mimosa


Lead tree


Jumbay

White popinac

Tropical Mimosa


leu•cae•na
(lOO-sē'nu)


Leucaena leucocephala
Leucaena glauca

"white headed"


A tropical tree belonging to the genus Leucaena, of the legume family
Leguminous (nitrogen fixing) tree with White yellow tinged flower clusters resembling a powder-puff and foliage resembling that of mimosa trees. Seed pods are like those of the acacia.
Leucaena can make a good shohin bonsai when grown from seed. It is fast growing and quick to develop an aged looking trunk.







Tropical Mimosa is one of the trees Bonsai Mary introduced to the world of those growing bonsai. This is a tree from one of the seed she sent in 1993.







Lead tree

Schmoo Tree

ekoa, jumbey, koa haole, lamtoro.

Leucaena leucocephala




In 2006, Mary published

04 August 2009

Cycas revoluta -King Sago Palm


Easy care "living fossil", from the Far East that resembles a palm tree but is a cycad. They can be grown as a houseplant, anywhere with adequate bright light. Drought tolerant. Chronic over watering can kill the plant; do let the soil dry out. Repot in spring or summer. Cycads prefer to be root bound and should be repotted into a container only slightly larger than the root system. If roots are trimmed for bonsai use, remove a comparable amount of lower leaves. Fertilize at one-third strength during the growing season.


Sago Palms in
Yoshino Park
Kagoshima City
Japan
1985


Small multi-head or multi-trunk sago palms are used as a subject for bonsai. The sago palm is native to Japan’s southernmost islands—a subtropical area of high rainfall and warm temperatures. A Processed starch known as sago is made from this and other cycads.


Toxicity




Sago Palms in
Yoshino Park
Kagoshima City
Japan
1985










Sagos at private residence in Kagoshima City

Cycas revoluta -King Sago Palm

03 August 2009

BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | 'Oldest' pot plant to get new pot

BBC NEWS UK England London 'Oldest' pot plant to get new pot:
"'Oldest' pot plant to get new pot"
A tree believed to be the "oldest pot plant in the world" has been re-potted in a delicate operation at Kew Gardens in south London.
The ancient cycad was collected in the early 1770s from the Eastern Cape in South Africa by Kew's first plant-hunter Francis Masson.

Video

Eastern Cape Giant grows in coastal areas of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa.





























Encephalartos altensteinii Lehm. (Bread Palm).
Taken at Palm House, Kew Gardens, (London, UK)

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