Olive Tree Bonsai Styles
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Olive tree bonsai styles. Taxonomy olea is a genus of about 20 species in the family oleaceae native to warm temperate and tropical regions of southern europe africa southern asia and australasia. There are literally hundreds of cultivars of olive tree. I defoliated this tree in summer and have new leaves on the tree today. They are evergreen trees and shrubs with small opposite entire leaves.
Something a bit different with an olive bonsai from my collection. For bonsai you can use cultivated varieties but the wild olive bonsai olea europaea sylvestris has the advantage of very tiny leaves and short internodes. However olive works in just about any other style from broom to the various upright and group styles to a full cascade. I picked up this olive tree from a nursery and in this video i styled it pruned and wired it.
The fruit is called a drupe. While it is possible to create a formal upright olive bonsai this style is not natural for the tree. See more ideas about bonsai bonsai tree olive. The tree needed to be wired to try and achieve a more.
Olive can be shaped into just about any bonsai style except formal upright. In many cases yamadori oleasters possess beautiful natural deadwood and a lovely rough bark that indicates a high age and survival in hostile conditions. The free upright shape moyogi style and the broom shape are particularly common.