10.29.06
Walking Stick Bonsai Tree
This is a filbert tree but doesn’t produce any nuts. It is a very interesting tree that looks like a branch. It is also for a deciduous tree and needs to be kept outdoors. This tree has beautifully twisted weeping branches that are very striking when bare. In late winter to early spring, 2-3″ long, yellowish catkins appear, hanging like ornaments from the wiry skeleton. They are followed by wide, fuzzy, droopy leaves that turn yellow before they drop in the fall. In the spring, summer and early autumn, it has large crinkly leaves so dense it hides the exaggerated corkscrew appearance of the limbs.
