Cousin Bought a Gnarled Diospyros cathayensis for 6,000 at the Roadside, and It Could Sell for Over 10,000 on Resale - What a Steal

Last week, my cousin from Sichuan went to the countryside to visit relatives. By the roadside, he saw a villager selling a Diospyros cathayensis. When he asked, the man wanted only 6,000 yuan. My cousin is a Diospyros cathayensis enthusiast and knows the market for them quite well, so he paid right away, loaded it onto the truck, and drove off!

My cousin said that when he saw this Diospyros cathayensis, he already had a rough estimate in mind. This gnarled-root Diospyros cathayensis is a carbonized shrub specimen, a forest-style Diospyros cathayensis, with a trunk height of about 1.2 m and a trunk width of nearly 1 m. The trunk shape is very beautiful, and he would have been willing to accept a price of around 10,000 in his mind, but the owner asked only 6,000, and he truly had not expected the price to be that low.

After seeing the pictures my cousin posted, some netizens left comments saying my cousin had made a huge steal, and that this trunk is worth at least over 10,000!

My cousin also told the truth: after he bought this trunk and brought it home, someone offered 12,000 for it, but he did not want to sell. He felt this trunk had the potential to be developed into a fine bonsai, and he wanted to grow it himself, train it through the transition and style it well, and display it at home for his own enjoyment.

Because Diospyros cathayensis trunks are naturally strange and ancient-looking with rugged strength, have a high budding rate, and are highly vigorous, they have already become one of the top choices for excellent bonsai material.

Diospyros cathayensis blooms around April every year, can set fruit by May, and the fruit turns orange-red or tangerine-red in autumn and will not drop until the following spring. The fruit resembles a pellet, so people vividly call it golden pellet (Jindanzi).

Diospyros cathayensis is a sun-loving tree species with tenacious vitality and fairly strong adaptability, and it is hardly picky about its growing environment. Diospyros cathayensis gets its name because its fruit looks like little golden round beads, and it is a fairly typical ornamental-fruit plant. Diospyros cathayensis has long been a favorite of bonsai artists. Its plant form is unique and its fruit is lovely, giving it very high ornamental value, and the methods for making and caring for bonsai are also relatively simple.

Diospyros cathayensis is a typical ornamental-fruit bonsai. Because the fruit it produces is golden yellow or light orange-yellow and looks like little golden round beads, it gets its name this way, and it is a fairly lovely choice of material for bonsai artistic styling.

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