[ID] help please

[Shinkitai]

I have the following in my bonsai collection and have no idea what it is called can anyone help?

I have always struggled to get a good shape put of the bonsai, but a cutting I took and put in the garden took of. The photos are from the garden version, I hedge trim it consistently so it may not naturally grow that shape.

Thanks for any help.

[Hackimoto]

Does it ever get a flower on it?

[Shinkitai]

No flowers

[Hackimoto]

My first thought was the yellow oleander, Cascabela thevetia, previously Thevetia peruviana
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=yell ... =firefox-a
but the leaf is to small for that one. If no one on here can ID it allow, one or two branches to grow untrimmed on the sunny side and it should flower eventually, which would help with identification.

[Shinkitai]

When I repotted the bonsai version today the roots are an orange colour (sorry forgot to take a photo).

[Hackimoto]

Did you buy it as a bonsai starter or just as a nursery plant or dig it up somewhere?

[MattA]

I might be wrong but it looks a little like Clerodendrum inerme (or what I have growing by that name) It flowers at the end of growth so constant hedging or pruning for bonsai will remove them.. I agree with Hackimoto, let a branch grow untouched until it flowers, this will make ID alot easier.

[Shinkitai]

Could it be a Podocarpus macrophylla? I got it from a Bonsai shop south in south brisbane about -8 years ago. The shop has since shut down. It was hidden at the back and I grabbed it because the bark had a really old weathered texture to it.

I am pretty sure it is not a yellow oleander as I remember them from around home when I was younger and this seems different. When you cut the branches or leaves it doesn't let out much sap at all, where as I thought I remembered the yellow oleander having a milky sap? I am often wrong though!

The leaf shape seems different to the clerodendrum.

I will let a branch grow right out and see what happens at this time of year that will not take long.

[Hackimoto]

No, not a podocarpus. But we will get to bottom of it though

[Sno]

Maybe a Hebe, looks similar to Hebe salicifolia.