Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
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peterson
JimLewis
bumblebee
Seth Ellwood
chris
Jocky_mo
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Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
Hi everyone. I just bought a little bonsai without a name. I asked the in the shop what type of tree it is, but they didn't know, so I'm asking for your help if anyone can identify this tree. I bought it because I think it is a Chinese elm or a Boxwood, but I couldn't identify it from pictures. I'm newbie in the Bonsai world. Here are the pictures
Thank you in advance
Thank you in advance
Jocky_mo- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
Hi Jocky,
Looks like Ilex Crenata, Japanese Holly, solid trees and fully hardy
Regards Chris
Looks like Ilex Crenata, Japanese Holly, solid trees and fully hardy
Regards Chris
chris- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
Thank you very much for answering so fast Chris.
I hope one day I can help others like the most of you do in this lovely club.
Thank you again.
I hope one day I can help others like the most of you do in this lovely club.
Thank you again.
Jocky_mo- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
Did you buy this fron a green house? I looks alot like FUKIEN TEA (Carmona microphylla) to me.
Seth Ellwood- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
Seth Ellwood wrote:Did you buy this fron a green house? I looks alot like FUKIEN TEA (Carmona microphylla) to me.
No, I bought it from a florist. Yes it is close to the Fukien tea, but if you take a closer look at the leaves you see that the fukien tea's leaves are more roundish than mine and have little white spots, also after Chris wrote that it could be japanese holly, I searched for it and also found that the bark of the J.Holly is sometimes greenish just like mine.
Here is a closer look of a Fukien tea(Carmona Microphylla) Anyways thanks for answering.
Jocky_mo- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
Looks like a Fukien Tea to me too.
Libby
Libby
bumblebee- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
The soil it is planted in looks awful. It's probably too late to do much about it now, but keep an eye on it and water it very carefully.
JimLewis- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
JimLewis wrote:The soil it is planted in looks awful. It's probably too late to do much about it now, but keep an eye on it and water it very carefully.
So when would be the right time to repot it, and Mr Jim, can you tell me exactly if it is a Fukien tea or a Japanese Holly?
Regards
Jocky_mo- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
I'd vote for the holly if that is he only two choices I'm given. If it is the holly, you will have to wait until spring to repot. All hollies I've worked with have disliked having roots fiddled with at any other time.
If it is something else, considering that you're not quite an accomplished bonsiest yet, I'd still vote for spring -- though I think Fukien Tea can be repotted in the cooler summer months (hearsay, since I've never worked on one).
If it is something else, considering that you're not quite an accomplished bonsiest yet, I'd still vote for spring -- though I think Fukien Tea can be repotted in the cooler summer months (hearsay, since I've never worked on one).
JimLewis- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
JimLewis wrote:I'd vote for the holly if that is he only two choices I'm given. If it is the holly, you will have to wait until spring to repot. All hollies I've worked with have disliked having roots fiddled with at any other time.
If it is something else, considering that you're not quite an accomplished bonsiest yet, I'd still vote for spring -- though I think Fukien Tea can be repotted in the cooler summer months (hearsay, since I've never worked on one).
Thank you very much. It feels to me that I learned a tiny-little bit about bonsais(from reading a lot) , because I did also consider that if I didn't know precisely what type of three is, than I would wait until spring to repot it, but now that I heard a Master saying this, I'll do that. I'll keep my fingers crossed until next year. Thank you.
Jocky_mo- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
JimLewis wrote:I'd vote for the holly if that is he only two choices I'm given. If it is the holly, you will have to wait until spring to repot. All hollies I've worked with have disliked having roots fiddled with at any other time.
If it is something else, considering that you're not quite an accomplished bonsiest yet, I'd still vote for spring -- though I think Fukien Tea can be repotted in the cooler summer months (hearsay, since I've never
worked on one).
I've never lived through one of those!
Libby
bumblebee- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
Oh I tried to put a picture in, evidently it didn't work. It's about 8 inches tall, including about 3 inches of large turnip looking roots that stick up out of the soil. It has thin brances with large almost oval leaves. Anything else?
peterson- Member
Can anyone identify my new bought tree
This is entirely different from the previous tree. From your description it is probably Chinese banyan, Ficus microcarpa. One of your fellow countrymen just wrote a whole book on growing Ficus bonsai in Australia.
Iris
Iris
bonsaisr- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
It's not a holy, not a ficus. It's a Carmona.
Be carefull, this tree is very delicate, mine is dead this spring because it was to hot and the air was to dry. About the repoting, it depends on your usda zone, if it lives outdoor.
Be carefull, this tree is very delicate, mine is dead this spring because it was to hot and the air was to dry. About the repoting, it depends on your usda zone, if it lives outdoor.
tatave2000- Member
Re: Can anyone identify my new bought bonsai?
Iris, the poster is from Saint George City, Transilvania, Zone 6. Not Australia. The second plant posted was to illustrate the difference between I crenata and Carmona Microphylla.
Peterson, please start a new topic for your question, as any answers here will just confuse the issue. This is always good netiquette. I'll delete your post here (and mine) once you have done that.
Peterson, please start a new topic for your question, as any answers here will just confuse the issue. This is always good netiquette. I'll delete your post here (and mine) once you have done that.
Kev Bailey- Admin
New bought bonsai
Hello, i have a fukin tea and the leaves do not look the same..have you seen any starting of flowers?? fukin tea has white flowers.. if it is a ficus it will bleed white sap if you pinch a leaf off. how tall is your tree what is that lump at the back of the trunk base?? I think it is a holly of some kind.. my opion only. John
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