Queensland Bottle Tree - Brachyiton Rupestris - Exotic Bonsai Tree - 5 Seeds The Patio Vegetable Collection The many pale green zigzagging

The many pale green zigzagging stems are hard and slightly hairy

bell-shaped flowers which bloom from August to January (spring to summer)

and mature in late autumn

The flowers are monoecious (individual flowers are either male or female

or trellised

Queensland Bottle Tree - Brachyiton Rupestris - Exotic Bonsai Tree - 5 Seeds The Patio Vegetable Collection The many pale green zigzaggingThe Australian Bottle tree, Brachychiton Rupestris, is a semi deciduous tree growing to 20 metres in the wild. Its dominating feature is the swollen bottle like trunk. Foliage is variable, the juvenile leaves are compound with between 3 and 9 linear leaflets. Upon maturity the leaves are simple, narrow lanceolate, up to 10 cm long. It is a flowering tree, but the flowers are small and somewhat insignificant. It is frost hardy and will take most