Queensland Bottle Tree - Brachyiton Rupestris - Exotic Bonsai Tree - 5 Seeds Morning Glory

Queensland Bottle Tree - Brachyiton Rupestris - Exotic Bonsai Tree - 5 Seeds Morning GloryThe Australian Bottle tree, Brachychiton Rupestris, is a semi deciduous tree growing to 20 metres in the wild. Its dominating feature is the swollen bottle like trunk. Foliage is variable, the juvenile leaves are compound with between 3 and 9 linear leaflets. Upon maturity the leaves are simple, narrow lanceolate, up to 10 cm long. It is a flowering tree, but the flowers are small and somewhat insignificant. It is frost hardy and will take most

the Caribbean

while others have none to speak of

Intense flavour is developed as mustard oil (glucocapparin) is released from each caper bud

but is probably of North African origin

popular cut flowers

minerals and when exposed to light are high in chlorophyll

With divided leaves and pink or blue flowers

This is a sweeter squash

meaning "evening"

Growing to 1m with pinky-mauve flowers

They open in response to sun

Mature trees in China are broadly conical and grow about 100 feet tall from thick buttressed roots