[cre8ivbonsai] Corokia cotoneaster 3

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[cre8ivbonsai] Corokia cotoneaster 3

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Species Corokia cotoneaster

Height 280mm

Where from given to me

Cost free

I was scraping trying to find an eligible third entry, and was dreading the inevitable trip to the big green money eater, when last night fate stepped in, and a generous club member gave me this little gem as a thank you for my previous help. :D
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first update ... repot and first wire done 4th Sept ... photos taken yesterday ...
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another update ... not much to report, just a nice amount of new growth :D

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Re: [cre8ivbonsai] Corokia cotoneaster 3

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Hi there,

your plant looks the same as:

Botanical name: Cornoceae Corokia Makrokapa

Common name: Silver gohst or Chatam Island
Korokio
identification: silver green leaves with yellow flowers

I have 4 plants in the garden, 25 mm trunks and often looked at using it for bonsai material, nice small foliage, sweeping trunks

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Sounds about right, I knew them only as NZ wire bush :palm: (Mods can correct title if required), yep they can make quite different & 'architectural' bonsai, I've also seen them styled as more of an informal upright with toparied pads. Hope yours survives transplanting, I've a larger one that I repotted a couple of months ago (after 4 years in the same pot :palm:) it needed lots of roots removed, and substantial pruning up top, but now its really struggling (lost most of its leaves) ... any tips BoNZia?

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Re: [cre8ivbonsai] Corokia cotoneaster 3

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BoNZai wrote:Hi there,

your plant looks the same as:

Botanical name: Cornoceae Corokia Makrokapa

Common name: Silver gohst or Chatam Island
Korokio
identification: silver green leaves with yellow flowers

I have 4 plants in the garden, 25 mm trunks and often looked at using it for bonsai material, nice small foliage, sweeping trunks

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Hi Ryan,

It's is Corokia cotoneaster.

Family: Cornaceae; Genus: Corokia; Species: cotoneaster

Corokia macrocarpa occurs naturally only on the Chatham Islands.

Family: Cornaceae; Genus: Corokia; Species:macrocarpa

Corokia cotoneaster is the one that is commercially grown.

It's a great plant to work with and doesn't need any or very little wire. The trunks don't thicken up that quick though.

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Ahh so I was right :tu: thanks Chris :cool:
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I haven't had any problems transplanting, mind you I have always slipped them from one pot to a bigger one and then in the open ground. Now they have thickened up I want them back in a pot and will do so at the end of the winter/early spring. I guess the key is to transplant without too much root disturbance and to let them go wild in the pot for one growing season before doing any work on the branch structure.
I'll keep you posted.
Lots of foliage and branches at the moment and tons of yellow star shaped flowers.
Should make a nice tree

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Update. clip 'n grow ... clip 'n grow, not much more to show :palm:
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You have picked a VERY slow tree to do something with in 12 months C8B. I have yet to meet a fattish one. :(
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bodhidharma wrote:You have picked a VERY slow tree to do something with in 12 months C8B. I have yet to meet a fattish one. :(
:lol: yeah I know, but I didn't choose it ... it choose me, a freebie in fact, and having nothing else at the time I thought "why not" :lost: maybe we can do a "where are they now" in 2020 :lol: :lol:
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OK so we're definitely not going to see this little guy with fat trunk, but 1 year on and through mostly clip n grow styling it's starting to get some ramification, the aim (apart from keeping up with the updates) is to get it into an appropriate sized pot and survive the transition.

EDIT: Current Height – 21cm
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[cre8ivbonsai] Corokia cotoneaster 3

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Update: not much happening here, it'll be good to get it into a smaller pot come spring.
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[cre8ivbonsai] Corokia cotoneaster 3

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Urrr pics via TT ain't working. They'll have to wait ...
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OK so a probably bit late to keep qualification :whistle: but here's the update from june that missed out due to TapaTalk upload failures ...
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