{"id":1766,"date":"2011-04-19T06:08:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2011-04-19T06:08:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:08:02","slug":"elaeagnus-silverberry-bonsai-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/elaeagnus-silverberry-bonsai-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaeagnus &#8211; The Silverberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1770 aligncenter\" title=\"Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-3-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree\" width=\"210\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have two rooted Elaeagnus conferta (\u80e1\u9893\u5b50in Chinese) on my bonsai table.  I have never given them much thought, but only until recently, my interest in this tree aroused when I saw a beautiful twin trunk Elaeagnus conferta in the bonsai collection of Mr. Wu Cheng-Fa, Chairman of Hong Kong Penjing and Artstone Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1768\" title=\"Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1771\" title=\"Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-4.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy two rooted Elaeagnus conferta<\/p>\n<p>Common name: Thory Elaeagnus, Wild Olive<br \/>\nNative: China \u2013 Guangxi, Yunnan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1769 aligncenter\" title=\"Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree-2-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elaeagnus-Bonsai-Tree\" width=\"210\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere usually is a layer of silvery brownish scales covering the leaves of Elaeagnus, giving the tree a silver to grey-brown look from a distance (that\u2019s probably where the nickname \u201cSilverberry\u201d comes from).<br \/>\nThe flowers are small, yet fragrant.  Fruit is a fleshy drupe with a single seed that is edible.  Chinese use the fruits and the leaves of Elaeagnus for food and medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two rooted Elaeagnus conferta (\u80e1\u9893\u5b50in Chinese) on my bonsai table.  I have never given them much thought, but only until recently, my interest in this tree aroused when I saw a beautiful twin trunk Elaeagnus conferta in the bonsai collection of Mr. Wu Cheng-Fa, Chairman of Hong Kong Penjing and Artstone Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}