Fukien Tea or Philippine Tea Tree (Ehretia microphylla syn Carmona retusa) is a species of flowering shrub in the Boraginaceae family. This tree grows widely in the east and southeast Asia including India, China, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Australia. Fukien tea has become an invasive weed in Hawaii, where the seeds are believed to…
Penjing
List of Trees Often Used in Chinese Penjing
Unlike bonsai, penjing is more rugged and the art of dwarfing this tree is the ancestor of bonsai which originated in China around the 7th century, long before bonsai (13th century). Penjing is an ancient Chinese art where trees are planted in shallow containers. The trees are stunted with a shape resembling a real tree…