AusBonsai

Hi all,
i just brought this plant in a supermarket and all that written on the tag was cypree, do someone know the species??
also any additional info on how you would proceed with this one will be most welcome.

Monterey cypress maybe? I found a picture in a bonsai book, I looks very similar.

I think it is Cyptomeria japonica.



The branch on the RHS is young foliage.

Cheers,
Mojo

Hi

dont think it is a Cryptomeria japonica, am more incline to bermuda cedar.

I think Mojo is right

If the needles are hard and prickly, it may be needle juniper. I'm not sure cryptomeria has the white line down the middle of the needles. If it is needle juniper, it's tough. Wire some shape into it, put it into the ground to get the trunk thick, (get the wire off before it bites!) and you'll have a good tree.

Gavin

Cryptomeria japonica "Elegans".

The foliage is quite soft and colours very purple in winter.

Grant

Hi all,

i brought a second one like this and itwas place in a green house whereas the one in the photo was placed outside and both was watered whenever needed but the one that was left outside has started to have brown foliage, started at the bottom and now spreading all over the tree, the one in the greenhouse is doing fine.
i dont have much luck with these species and am starting to think that changing their environment abruptly may kill the tree, as far as i remember all of my junipers dies in the same way
can some please confirm that to me.

If it is" japonica" they are a colour changer and go brown or "copper" during winter.

TKS BODHI,

foliage don't seem like a winter brown but crispy and brittle, may be wrong but from past experience, once they get in these situations , they don't reverse

This is another conifer that can sometimes be obtained from the throwout bins at nurseries. staff with little experience assume they are dying and throw them out when they get winter colour.

However brown and crispy and brittle is NOT winter colour. I'd say your tree is EX, and you are correct - they do not recover from being dead very often.