Penang (Malaysia)Adenium May 2011 Competition

Grand Champion Adenium

Large 2nd Placing

RCN Bonsai Adenium Champion

Medium Champion

Medium RCN adenium bonsai 2nd Placing

Odd/Unique adenium Champion

Nice flowers.

but...please forgive me for my ignorance, Are these trees classified as bonsai? Will they be competing separately from "regular" bonsai trees?
..or ornamental flowers?

regards,
jun

Hi Jun,
Of course not....just that there is a category in the adenium competition which caters for bonsai form whereby the adenium plant concerned assumes bonsai features like smooth tapering from trunk to branches and the tips or twigs; planted in shallow pots.The typical adenium plants usually possess strong hugh stumps and multiple trunks with many blooming flowers.

Regards...

roykoibon wrote:Hi Jun,
Of course not....just that there is a category in the adenium competition which caters for bonsai form whereby the adenium plant concerned assumes bonsai features like smooth tapering from trunk to branches and the tips or twigs; planted in shallow pots.The typical adenium plants usually possess strong hugh stumps and multiple trunks with many blooming flowers.

Regards...

many thanks for the explanation!

I got several adenium as ornamental flowers, but never thought of imitating a bonsai form for them, with characters such as tapering trunk and branches. that is quite difficult to achieve, I guess. Bali got wonderful collection of adenium "bonsai", some are even carved as animal form and I appreciate them as "cousins" of bonsai when I saw them, really loved the flowers.
I'll probably try to make one.
again, what a wonderful show you got there!

regards,
jun