What pine can do bonsai

Pine tree because the trunk curved degree, the foliage is evergreen, the key is the soft branches are very suitable for coiling modeling pine tree is the pine family pine plants, is China's traditional bonsai species, it and cypress and other pine plants form a proprietary category - pine and cypress bonsai.

1, Huangshan pine.

In the Qing Dynasty's "Bonsai Occasional Record", Huangshan Pine is listed as a bonsai plant "seven sages" first, it can be seen the degree of popularity. Its year-round verdant, needle leaves two needles in a bundle, bright green, slightly thick and hard. Stem often bent, bark dark gray-brown and slightly reddish, scale-like thick piece of cracking. Crown supine like a cover, strong and handsome.

2, five needle pine.

Four seasons verdant, branches and leaves spreading, needles and leaves five needles in a bundle, leaves dense needle short, clustered at the top of the branch, bark dark gray, scale-like sheet cracking. Green-brown branchlets densely yellowish pilose. Slow-growing, short, dignified posture, is one of the most common bonsai species. Five-needle pine grows fast, do bonsai rarely used, a few years time to grow tall and grown, five-needle pine to do bonsai I have done, mainly used in the city green belts in the point of view, it is very easy to lose leaves, change leaves quickly.

3, black pine.

The four seasons of green, needles and leaves of two needles in a bundle, dark green, thick and hard, gray-black bark, scale-like cracking. Slow-growing, branches and trunks spread horizontally, the crown of the tree as a cover, strong and strange. Black pine is the most popular in recent years, the price is even more expensive.

4, brocade pine.

Black pine varieties, the scaly openings of the branches and trunks of extraordinarily deep, more pale and peculiar.

5, horsetail pine.

Four seasons evergreen, long and soft needles, the bark is irregular thick blocky dehiscence. Usually cultivated as timber forest. Ponytail pine do bonsai is also very good material, especially to do micro-bonsai, very good-looking, friends also got a lot of ponytail pine micro-bonsai.