AusBonsai

Here is a new she oak i piked up through a friend. Saw the tree somewhere and mentioned to a person, they brought it cheap and let me buy it off them.

It was brought for the base alone.....



And with some good feeding and cutting back i hope to get the branches growing lower, It does have a bud extending out of the current Y area that i might use to grow an apex.



The branch on the left is dead and would give some great carving options on that side which will add to the taper.

torulosa! nice one jezz. cool im cleaning mine up at the moment too.

Thanks Ant, I thought it was but you never can be sure..

You have to post pics of yours, i bet they are looking even better now.... (they already looked great)

the first one is relly putting on some ramification now. will post soon.

Cant wait. What do you feed them? Smae as everything else if i remember correctly?

Hi Jarrod
Lovely starting material. You should get something exciting out of it.

I too think that A. torulosa is a good bet, but I'm a little unsure. It and A. littoralis can both produce identically corky bark. From what I can see of the green branchlets, they look a little coarse for A. tor. Can you count the number of teeth on the 'side branches' of a mature bit of growth? (not the vigourously growing apical/tip bits)? In the absence of 'cones' this can help, but not always.
Kunzea

Quick update, managed to chase the foilage down a bit to about the height I want to start working branches From. When's a good time to remove and carve out the dead bit?

Let me know what you think?

Hi Jarrod, The bark looks like torulosa to me, litoralis has bark which is much harder whereas the bark on torulosa will flake off when you touch it. good find.
Craig

I think litoralis also. Have one just like it. Then also have the firm bark one. OH btw any time jezz! just like a juni!

Torulosa is what I think it is now. Will spans a night working the dead wood. Should I take it all off and let it heal? Or create a feature from it?

Let it heal Jarrod the scar will cover over quite nicely
Craig

Knew you'd say that!

stuck record hey

Hi Jarrod
torulosa seems like a good bet. It is hard to see the green br, but I think I can convince myself that there are 4 'teeth' at each node. This is common in A. torulosa, but can range up to about 6. A. littoralis goes from about 6-9. The latter is found in quite a range of habitats, so it depends on where the seed was collected. In some cases the bark is hard and only fissured, not corky, whereas in other cases it is corky, like torulosa and equally delicate. The cones are the best way to tell, but failing that the branchlets can be pretty good, but not absolute.

In any case, it looks like it should make a great tree!
Cheers
K