Bonsai wild olive tree wild olive

Acebuche Bonsai.

Tree only 14 cm from the base of the pot, a high quality piece with good branching and placement of branches. The pot is cracked as seen in the photos, but this does not affect its cultivation at all. The ideal would be to transplant it in spring-summer to an unglazed pot that enhances the character of this olive tree.

Characteristics of wild olive trees

Wild olive trees are wild olive trees, that is, they are the origin of the species without human intervention or selection. In general, the different species of olive trees that we know (Hoji blanca, arbequina, picual, cornicabra) are manipulations that humans have carried out through selection to obtain the highest possible yield in agriculture or in search of particular characteristics such as resistance to humid areas, greater resistance to cold or greater olive production.

Unlike olive trees, the fruit of olive trees is the acebuchina, a smaller fruit than the olive.

Care of an olive bonsai

Olive trees are trees that are sensitive to excess humidity, so we should not overwater our bonsai. In general, it is a resistant tree that acclimatizes well to a very wide range of temperatures, the ideal being between 10ºC and 35ºC but it is capable of withstanding more extreme temperatures.

Olive trees are trees that appreciate fertilization mainly when temperatures are more moderate, that is, during the spring and autumn months.

Pruning the wild olive bonsai

Olive and wild olive trees have a sprouting of paired leaves facing each other, that is, two facing leaves sprout, one facing up and one down and the following ones to the left and one to the right, so if we want to densify the tree we will have to know where we want the last shoot to grow. If we defoliate a branch, cutting the tip, and the last pair of leaves emerge up and down, this last sprout will be in that direction. If we want the end of the branch to open to the sides, we will leave a pair of dormant buds that sprouts left and right.