When it comes to boxwood, many flower lovers who like to play with bonsai are familiar with it. Boxwood can be said to be very suitable as a bonsai, its leaves are very small, and all year round is evergreen, the branches are old and slow to grow, various advantages make boxwood loved by everyone.
Classification of boxwood
Large-leaved boxwood
I believe that many people have heard the distinction between large-leaf boxwood and small-leaf boxwood, in fact, large-leaf boxwood it is not really boxwood, this large-leaf boxwood also has a name, that is, holly. Belonging to a plant of the family Venomosa, the most common operation is to plant it as a greenery.
There are a number of other varieties of populus macrophylla:
Silver-edged boxwood: The edges of the leaves are white.
Phnom Penh Boxwood: Similar to Silver Edge Boxwood, except that the edges of the leaves are golden yellow.
Silver Heart Boxwood: There are some white spots on the edges of the leaves and on the surface of the leaves.
Golden Heart Boxwood: The spots on the edges and surfaces of the leaves are golden yellow.
Small-leaved boxwood
Small-leaved boxwood can be divided into bird's tongue boxwood or melon seed boxwood and pearl boxwood and so on. Among these boxwoods, the boxwood and melon seed boxwood mostly live in the stone crevices along the stream, so they also have the name of water boxwood, and the rice leaf boxwood belongs to the bird's tongue boxwood. Pearl boxwood mostly grows on the top of high mountains, so it is also called alpine boxwood. Watercress boxwood and spoon leaf boxwood should belong to the melon seed boxwood, let's take a look at the difference between these kinds of boxwood.
Melon seeds boxwood
The shape of the leaves is that of melon seeds, showing a charming oval shape. Evergreen shrub. 1-3 (7) m tall, bark grey with regular peeling; The stems and branches have 4 edges; The outer scales of the twigs and winter buds have short hairs. The leaves are inverted ovate or inverted ovate oblong to broadly oval, 1–3 cm long and 7–15 mm wide, with fine hairs at the base of the dorsal main vein and petiole. Flower clusters grow on leaf axils or branches without petals; Capsules are spherical. The flowering period is from March to April, and the fruit period is from May to July.
The leaves are shaped like melon seeds, oval in shape, and the leaves are opposite and leathery; The leaves of the watercress boxwood are like soybeans, almost round. Hedges and large flower beds are often used as hedges and large flower beds, trimmed into spherical or other plastic cultivation, dotted with mountain stones or made of bonsai. Although the branches and leaves are evacuated, they are verdant and lovely, often planted alone, clustered in the courtyard for ornamentation or hedges, and can also be arranged in shape flower beds.
Widely distributed in North China, South China, Southwest China provinces.
Pearl boxwood
The shape of the leaves is like a watercress, and the surface is smooth and rounded. Also known as fish scale boxwood, evergreen small shrub. Height 30 cm to 1.5 m; main trunk gray-brown, with shallow longitudinal fissures; dense branches, small branches with four edges, gray-green, internodal length 4-6 mm, soft hairs; small leaves are purple-red, yellow-green, paraphyletic, thick leathery, shiny, ovoid, full margin, marginal long roll, 0.5-0.7 cm long and 0.4-0.5 cm wide, resembling a piece of fish scales; hermaphroditic plant, flowering in April, flower apex or axillary, the top of the inflorescence is a female flower, the middle and lower part is a male flower; the capsule ripens in August, there are 3 seeds in each fruit, the black is shiny, and it has the ability to reproduce.
Pearl boxwood is the easiest to distinguish from other boxwood, the leaves are as small as pearls, purple-red, yellow-green, opposite, thick leathery, shiny, oval, just like a piece of fish scales. The stems are also mottled like fish scales.
It is mostly distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui and other provinces.
Bird's tongue boxwood
Because the leaves look like the tongue of a bird, it is named as a bird's tongue. Height 3-4 meters; Cylindrical branches; The twigs are quadrilateral, covered with short soft hairs, and later become hairless; The leaves are thin and leathery, usually spoon-shaped, but also narrowly ovate or inverted, 1.5–2.5 (-3.5) cm long, with a green, bright leaf surface, pale gray on the back of the leaf, protruding on both sides of the midrib, very many lateral veins, and prominent on both sides or only on the leaf surface; The inflorescence is axillary, head-shaped; The capsules are ovate. The flowering period is from February and the fruiting period is from May to August.
Boxwood, whose leaves are shaped like the tongue of a bird, slender; Rice leaves boxwood, the leaves resemble rice shape. In comparison, the rice-leaved boxwood leaves are smaller than the finch-tongued boxwood leaves.
It is produced in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei, Henan, Gansu, Shaanxi (southern) and other provinces in China.
Small-leaved boxwood is an excellent material for making bonsai, among which the highest survival rate is melon seed boxwood and bird's tongue boxwood, which is highly adaptable and has strong tillering power. And pearl boxwood is the most difficult to maintain, because pearl boxwood belongs to the alpine boxwood, the famous "downhill death", pearl boxwood likes warm and cool climate, high humidity in the alpine environment and the temperature difference between day and night make it difficult to survive the downhill pile, so the general pearl boxwood pile more than three years to be called a mature pile, within three years may die at any time.
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