GavinG wrote: ↑November 6th, 2023, 3:36 am
I must have been mad to give it to you... It has a nice base, certainly - I've always found the next step of developing credible branch structure difficult. Can't help on the species... Have you compared it to E. punctata in your area? Does it shed its bark around now?
Have fun!
Gavin
Hi Gavin,
I hope you and the wife are going well. Long time no see. You need to come up here and visit me.
It definitely doesn’t resemble E. Punctata no. I have no idea what species it is, but wow. It’s definitely the best Eucalyptus I’ve ever grown whatever it is. It reduces the leaves really easily. It’s incredibly hardy, for both drought and severe root reduction.
Now that I have full sun, the internodes are very short and it will be perfect for bonsai life.
When you gave it to me at the Native plant symposium, it didn’t look anything like this though. It had a few straggly roots at the base. I had planted it deeper than its soil line at the time to encourage more roots, which proved excellent with a mass of roots developing. It’s certainly a stupid wives tale that you can’t plant Eucs below the current line, or if it has a lignotuber. I’ve done this on countless Eucs without a problem.
I wish I had more of this Eucalytpus species. Now that I have full sun and the way I style my trees, (allow them to grow a lot and tell me which way they want to be styled)…. It means most of my trees will hopefully flower and I might be able to get an ID on it.
Yes, it’s almost finished shedding its bark now. It sent out new shoots so quickly after the trunk chop. (I think it was only about 10 - 12 days)
This and a E. olidia are definitely my favourite Eucs.
I am very grateful you gave this to me.
It certainly had your characteristic trademark hunchback/bent over start to its development that your Eucs are well known for, when you gave it to me. I do often laugh when I’m working on this, thinking about what dry, sarcastic comment you’d say to me as I’m working it.
p.s I have Grant to thank for my large Bankisa collection, but by far, the most number of genus I have is now Eucalyptus.
Without any possums, and full sun for fast growth to dismiss Myrtle rust, I have more Eucalyptus now than any other genus, and I have you to thank for that, with your awesome trees that made me want to give them another serious attempt. I’ll try to get more of my progressions updated for those: nicholii, costata, olidia (amazing), citriodora (wow, the scent, it’s out of this world), melliodora, cladocalyx nana, virudius dwarf, wimmerensis, polyanthomos, crebra and roseacea