Hello my friends!

Another year coming to an end, and here I am sharing another project I've been working on the last two years.

This is a Chloroleucon Tenuiflorum, that's a deciduous (or semi) tree, a subspecies of Brazilian Rain Tree that builds a thick corky bark.
Mine is just two years old from seed, so the bark is not that thick yet, but it's already quite corky.

My approach on this tree is giving it a very tropical look, it still a new thing for me as I've been taking classes to learn that way of styling and it has been awesome.

Well, my idea for this one is not to thicken a lot more, and that species thicken quite well even on small pots, due to the bark growth. For some other trees on the same species I plan to make it bigger tho.

Oct. 2021


Dec. 2021 (I planted on a slighly bigger pot after that and didn't register)


April 2022 (Taproot prunned and planted on a even slightly bigger pot for development, already showing some cork)


Today (It's on a quite big pot and after it was given some movement and some branches were positioned, it just grew unpruned, this week I prunned it back to favour some other lower branches, since it has a very strong apical growth, it was like 1,5m high, I did it also to propagate...
I checked the nebari from the top, seems to be coming out nice and radial, ferilized it and it's ready for summer growth.



You might noticed a twist little twig on the left, I left that there as a resource, I thought that side of the ramification is not as good and short as the other side, so I was considering to prune back to that little twig and start that ramification again with a better movement, however it gave me other options, still haven't decided about that.

Well, that's it, any feedback is welcome, hope you enjoy this journey with me.

Happy Holidays ya'll.

Wow ... a fantastic development in just 2 years !
I like the shape, very nice trunk and bark.
Good Job

Thank you Dax, BRTs are very fast in growth.
And of course, the climate plays a major role, which is subtropical here (10a hardiness zone).

But still, there's a long way to go.

Albas wrote:

... the climate plays a major role, which is subtropical here .

But still, there's a long way to go.

Ahh.. thank you,... that explains a lot !
Keep it up, i would like to see your tree in 3 years (of course sooner).