Tetradium daniellii. The bee tree is a tree from china that can grow up to 20 meters tall. It has a very strong smell, when it flowers, that some people like and others find unpleasant. It was recommended by the german beekeepers as being the most melliferous plant of the temperate climates. It produces thousands of flowers and apparently a honeybee, after having visited 4 flowers, needs to return to the hive because the flowers contain so much pollen/nectar. This tree is dioecious and i planted 3 of them. I hope to have male and female trees among my 3 plants to be able to get seeds. It grows quite fast, is quite frost-hardy and the smell of the leaves reminds me of elderflower.
I weeded all my malus sieversii trees and i lost quite a few to what i believe was a combination of deer, rabbit and rodent attacks. I think i lost between one fourth and one third of the 426 plants i grew from seed. I discovered some visually very amazing and different ones in two of the six seed batches. I singled out several unique ones that i planted in my polytunnel to grow them properly. I didn't have the time to protect the 426 as i would have liked to. All trees of the 4 other batches have basically green leaves. Here is one example. This is a very nice green leaved one. And another green leaved one. Already these two are different in leaf colour and shape. But i selected them from the batches where all had green leaves in order to be sure to have genetic diversity. I kept 18 seedlings in the polytunnel that contain some of every batch. The following ones are very special and unique and display many variations of red and green and even other colours. One seedling with nice
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