Juniper (cypress) Sabina chinensis
Cypress bonsai
Origin: Originated in the north of China. It loves light, is shade tolerant when young, hardy, hardy, drought tolerant, and does not have strict soil requirements.
Appearance: Juniper cypress is an evergreen tree. Old branches are often twisted; The twigs are erect or oblique, and there are also those who are slightly droopy. Winter buds are not significant. There are two kinds of leaves, the scales and leaves are alternate, mostly found on old trees or old branches; Thorny leaves are mostly found on young trees or at the base of the long tiller branches, three branches are rotated, the base of the leaf has no joints and grows downwards, the leaf is slightly concave, and there are two white stomata bands.
There are also plants that have always been thorny leaves since childhood. The cones are spherical in shape, ripe in November of the following year, dark brown when ripe, covered with white powder, and have 1 to 4 seeds.
Propagation: Cypress propagation is often used for sowing and cuttings. Seeds have a long dormancy period of post-ripening and tend to germinate every other year. Cuttings can be used with young branches (June cuttings) or hard branches (October cuttings), and the Yaojia Garden in Yanling, Henan Province, uses half a meter long thick branches to perform mud cuttings in late autumn, and the survival rate is quite high.
Bonsai form: The common forms of juniper bonsai are upright, straight oblique, curved oblique, horizontal and so on.
Round pendulum bonsai
Juniper cypress has a variant of true cypress (桧 cypress) var.sargentii, which is a creeping shrub with dense sprigs protruding from the branches; The leaves of young trees are thorny, often cross-opposite, more closely arranged, and the leaves of old trees are scaly; The cones are tinged with blue. Produced in the northeast of China, it is very hardy and resistant to barren soil. It is often propagated with cuttings and can also be grafted, and side cypress is commonly used in rootstock. The forms of Zhenbai bonsai include curved vertical type, curved slope type, cliff type, horizontal type and so on. The local branches of the real cypress can be made into dead branches and dry branches, the so-called "relics dry". This is to imitate the phenomenon of some branches splitting and bark peeling off by natural trees due to long-term wind, rain and lightning attacks. The stump can be arranged at the top of the tree or in the middle of the branch.