Collected Wild Olive

I thought I'd share some images of a wild olive that I recently collected:
The real attraction for me was the high quality and movement of the deadwood, it should be a very interesting tree in 5 to 10 years.

Hi, there. It is a beautiful material. I believe, it will be awesome bonsai in couple years. Looking forward.

It's very attractive deadwood,potential materials
Cheer.

Hi Justin
Very interesting olive with fantastic deadwood. Do you have a pic of the live side merging into the deadwood?

Cosmos

Hi Cosmos

Here is an update of the tree's progress (apologies for the confused background), there is no live vein on the dead-wood element, the left branch will become the main trunk with an apex not far above its current termination.

A beautiful yamadori olive! It will definitely make a stunning bonsai. Is it the smaller leafed variety?
Regards
Hank

Great movement and dead wood, nature is the best bonsai artist.

Yes Hank, it is the small leafed variety.

Here is the tree as it looks today:
Potted up in August, the existing deadwood at the base cleaned up and some created.
It will now grow freely for a couple of years, still a long way to go but I am very happy with the potential.  

Very interesting. Hope to see its progression in future...

Very cool deadwood Good luck with the development of this tree.