Planted it as a 10 inch plant in a large pot with excellent soil and kept in a sunroom by the window and it started yellowing on the wind...Read Moreow side, so I moved it outside in the morning sun but a shade in the afternoon. It keeps on yellowing and some leaves burned light brown now.
June 30, 2013 update: the plant is still slowly declining and not growing at all. The ends of the branches are now bare. The seller advised to water it less and that's what I did. Also the soil is a really good mix that I mix myself from several ingredients that all plants love. Still no improvement.
Mid July update: the plant showed signs of growth after I stopped watering it and giving it just a cupful of ice cubes. It is protected from rain in a rain shelter.
Germinating this tree: I bought hundreds of seed, cold stratified, warm stratified, etc. Months later, no germination. not a single seed. Very hard to germinate! No wonder they are impossible to find.
This is an asiatic short tree, reaching up to 10 meters tall at most. It has a smooth trunk with a cinnamom brown inner bark, It has a py...Read Moreramidal shape, with a deep green foliage that turn red on fall. The flowers are small, white, slightly fragrant, single on the leaf axil, with many yellow stamens.
Planted it as a 10 inch plant in a large pot with excellent soil and kept in a sunroom by the window and it started yellowing on the wind...Read More
This is an asiatic short tree, reaching up to 10 meters tall at most. It has a smooth trunk with a cinnamom brown inner bark, It has a py...Read More