Bonsai rock persimmon tree: A strange product this Tet, the price is worth billions to the rich

More than a month to go Lunar New Year Ky Hoi, but the ornamental plant market for Tet has begun to bustle. Accordingly, many customers have gone to the garden to order ornamental plants with unique beautiful shapes for Tet. But this year, in addition to the main products of ornamental kumquats, peach orchids of all kinds…, there are also a number of new ornamental plants appearing on the market with prices ranging from tens of millions to hundreds of dong each.

Mr. Le Minh – a famous ornamental gardener in Sapa (Lao Cai) boasted: “About a month ago, customers started coming to order my bonsai persimmon trees to take home for Tet. So this is the time Almost all of the customers have ordered beautiful red stone trees.

Pink bonsai stones are ordered by many customers

The cheapest bonsai tree costs around 10 million VND

Mr. Minh said this is a type of ornamental plant Tet is quite new on the market and very few gardeners have it. During Lunar New Year this year, he only had about 60 trees for sale, of which the cheapest tree was priced at 10 million VND, the most expensive tree was priced at nearly 900 million VND, and the rest had an average price of several tens of million VND to several hundred million VND per tree.

Ordinary persimmon trees grow up to several meters high, but this type of rock persimmon has rough roots with traces of time and the trunk is only about 1-15 meters high. But what makes visitors excited is that from the time they bear fruit to the time they ripen and fall, it lasts up to 8 months. During Tet, this is the time when the red and ripe persimmons are at their most beautiful on the tree, and usually after the Lunar New Year, the fruit begins to fall. . When the fruit falls off, the tree begins to flower and bear fruit again, without a rest period like commercial persimmon trees.

Iced persimmon is very fruity but the fruit is very sour

But the fruit’s durability is usually 8 months

At this time, most of the rock rose trees in Mr. Minh’s garden have been ordered by customers

Red rock tree costs over 300 million VND

A stone persimmon tree was ordered by a Vung Tau customer for nearly 600 million VND< /p>

However, the fruit of the stone persimmon has a very sour taste, so it is usually only for beautiful display and cannot be eaten like crispy persimmon or egg persimmon. .

“This type of plant is usually bought by customers with money for fun or as a gift because its price is very expensive,” Mr. Minh said. He revealed that a tycoon in Vung Tau 3 months ago flew to Hanoi and drove himself car went to his garden to order a giant rock persimmon tree for 560 million VND for Tet. Meanwhile, other customers are also preparing to order trees and gradually move them back to celebrate New Year and Lunar New Year.

According to Bao Phuong
VietnamNet