Ficus Celebense

[kcpoole]

At Bonsai By the Harbour a few weeks ago, I won this tree in the raffle and the tag says Ficus Celebense.
It is about 500mm tall and maybe 75-100 mm across the base of the trunk.

It was severly pot bound, and as we are have some really warm weather here, and my yard is well sheltered I decided to repot to see what we had.

Cut the roots back hard to untangle the mess, and had a good look around the top and decided i will layer the top off later in the year and work with it as a separate tree, The bottom can be developed as a Broom style maybe?

Anyone know anything about them?

Ken

[Graeme]

Ken, try Ficus celebensis on Google, there is a lot of info there mate.

[kcpoole]

I put on some airlayers in this tree a few months ago, and took one off at christmas and the other today

Enjoy

[Mitchell]

Nice bit of movement on the second layer, great taper too.

Keep us posted mate.

[lennard]

Nice potential from one tree

Lots of confusing information on the species- could only find information on Ficus celebensis.

Maybe Jerry can give us some information on this one.

Nice project. Keep us updated.

Lennard

[kcpoole]

Thanks for the comments

The taper and movement was why I wanted to take off the layer, Hope it works like I plan it to

Lennard there is a bit off discussion going on here and Ash from QLD suggests it might be Ficus brachypoda
I will take some cuttings and send to him to identify if he can

We will see

Ken