Yamadori Moranbah

[wattynine]

This one was collected from a dry river bed in central west NQ near Moranbah.
It was lifted in August last year and the simply put into a new medium and then lots of prayers to the bonsai gods to bring it back to me, it worked and this is the result so far.
enjoy,

so covered in litter and debris this is the original position

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and after some TLC today, just cleaning it up, removing some dead and rotting wood and cleaning the mud out of the middle of it.
before the work,

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and after the work today

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love the deadwood

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[bamboos]

G'day
So the Issac river has something other than sand? Any idea what it is?
I have often wondered if there were yamidori in the river but always ran out of time
As a side note I have noticed a small tree with a drooping habit at the entrance to one of the mines and have never been able to identify it I have some photos somewhere I will dig out
Steve

[wattynine]

Steve, as my initial guess I would say Kunzea, but of course the foliage is young and I have no flowers or fruit yet.
Second guess, something from the Melaleuca family.

Any body want to jump in here?
Watty

[marcela]

Hi Watty,
Looks like a Callistemon to me, if it were a Melaleuca it could possibly be Linarifolia or Alternifolia but you would need to crush the foliage to determine that. I'm leaning more to a callistemon. Good luck with it either way, it looks like an interesting find.
Marcela

[wattynine]

so the first of the updates and not happy news.
This is the first and only piece of collected material that has died on me.
It begun to "grey" in the leaf and simply looked like it was dehydrating but the leaves didn't quite look like they dried but as mentioned, greyed.
the medium, if anything was wet, but not saturated for weeks leading up to this event.
on inspection just before death I attempted to re-pot into just a coarse material, I found "worms" in the medium no longer then 10mm that had a blue stripe down the side.
Cause? Cannot confirm but the pot was not on the ground and up on a rack, nematode or worm or leech I could not tell you, the cause of the death I cannot confirm,
just telling it like it is.
sad to have lost it, although it doesn't show in the last pictures, the plan was there for this tree.
Watty

[Firecat]

Very sad.. As I started reading from initial post my first reaction was that you have saved the trees life... Alas this is what we do and sometimes the end of life is what we get.

Side note

Were they like these..larval or small size juvies.
A predator actually that may have been chewing on nemies, grubs maybe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenoplana_coerulea
Steve.

[wattynine]

Yes mate, that is it exactly.
thanks for the info, obviously not the culprit for the cause of death.
So that means it was probably me, not the first tiem, not the last.
Watty

[Watto]

My deepest condolences. I do understand the sadness but I also think we as a bonsai community must continue to learn and continue to dig Aus Natives.