Diospyros montana

My diospyros in my garden is ready for harvesting. Please enjoy.


Budi

To get the estimate size, here is me with the tree.

Budi

Just awesome.

Cosmos

stunning budi

Very Very Nice!! I really like the pot it is in also...Good work,,thanks for posting john

It's just amazing.



Pavel.

Breathless Budi,

Another worth seeing,,,,

Alex

Wow! Really stunning tree. Is the harvest for export? I would love to have such a special "pearl"
I admire Your work so much. Please, tell me, the common amateur from Poland, how much time has passed to do such an amazing art of work?
Sorry if my English is "shaky"

Budi, your tree is beautiful. Would you mind sharing some history of this tree. Where did it come from? How long have you been growing it? Where did the pot come from?, etc. Thank you!
Salut, Todd

such a beautiful tree... Its a masterpiece.

I see you smiling at your tree, budi . certainly this beautiful bonsai is something to smile about.

best wishes from hawaii,

sam

Dear Budi,
WOW what a show stopper!!! Absolutely stunning and over powering Bonsai!!! It brought a big smile to my face this morning, thank you for that!!!
With lots of respect,
Hans van Meer.

This is beautiful!

Budi an amazing tree, ingenious

Budi. Thank you so much for sharing another one of your masterpiece bonsai. That trunk line/bark looks 1000yrs old. Very natural. Of course setting fruit just adds to feeling of being with nature's creation/survival. In addition, that pot blends so well with tree ...like heritage of our past. Funny... I have that style pot in oribe/green rectangle(imported around 1991), but my USA buddies always hate it. Dustin Mann

Wow, beautiful, very impressive. Thanks for sharing

please let me say WOW!!!! how do you do great care for this result... alot of fruits!!!
great and powerful bonsai!

Todd Ellis wrote:Budi, your tree is beautiful. Would you mind sharing some history of this tree. Where did it come from? How long have you been growing it? Where did the pot come from?, etc. Thank you!
Salut, Todd

Thanks for all the good comments.

This tree has been with me for 5 years. It was from a bonsai seller in Bekasi, a small town near Jakarta. I was really lucky getting it. I just made a little cut or removed some small branches and changed the position. I put it in a new pot in 2007 that I got from one pot seller in Jakarta. It was an imported Chinese pot.








At that time there was no fruits at all, so that I have to treat it to bear the fruits.

Budi

Budi,

Like i told you when i first saw it, this tree is awesome. I would only try to remove the rock that is embedded in the hanging trunk. Once it is gone, the tree will have superior trunk movement and a better line.

Thanks for posting.

Your friend,

Jose Luis

Jose Luis,

At last I just decided to keep it, just to add the naturalness of the plant.


Your friend,
bUDI

Dear Budi

You have a lovely tree, and the pot is perfect. I would love to see it one day.

Very kind regards from your friend Yvonne

Budi, tell us more about tree, whether fruit is edible, how long is it in training?

Yvonne Graubaek wrote:Dear Budi

You have a lovely tree, and the pot is perfect. I would love to see it one day.

Very kind regards from your friend Yvonne

Hi Yvone,

It is really very good to meet you here. I hope one day you can see it personally. Most welcome. I hope it will be in full fruin when you see it.

Your friend,
Budi

Raghav Agrawal wrote:Budi, tell us more about tree, whether fruit is edible, how long is it in training?

Raghav,

Diospyros montana is native to Indonesia. It was first discovered as bonsai material in 1985 when people in Indonesia was in the high mood of looking for new bonsai species. The person got the tree wa called "Tam". He thought that the plant he got was an ulmus. Proudly he showed it to his fellow bonsai friends. "I got a nice ulmus!" he shouted. When his friends who knew ulmus well saw the tree, they all laughed and one of them said "Ii is MUSTAM". What he meant was ulmus of Tam. Since nobody knows the real name of the wild plant, up to now people called this plant mustam.

Diospyros montana is a dioecus plant. One plant only has male flower, where as the other has both male and female organs. One that can bear fruits we called it a female plant, where as the one that has only flowers we called it a male plant. Here is the male and female plants in one display that I called it "Yin and Yang"


This is the male flowers


and this is the female flower


The fruit will stay in the tree for more than six months to get ripe.



The taste of the fruit is a bit bitter. People usually do not eat it. Anyhow, birds like to eat the ripe one, so that you have to protect them when most of them are about mature.

Budi

Dear Budi,

Very interesting facts you have shared. Thanks a lot. And very beautiful Yin Yang composition too.

As always looking forward to your posts.

Regards
Ravi