AusBonsai

I have lost track of the tag for this one a couple of years ago, I need to improve my catalogue methodology, early on( my early on is only a few years) I purchased a number of native tube stock from the Belair native nursery. This one either didn't have a tag or went missing along the way.

The foliage is stiff and a bit spikey.

I would appreciate help with this one.

Not a lot to go on but my guess is a Leptospermum species.
Leaves look similar to one I have from Great Ocean rd on this side of the border. Natural habit of mine is a fairly dense shrub growing to around waist high in sand dunes. Covered in white flowers in spring.
I have not worked out a species name for the one I grow.

shibui wrote: ↑January 12th, 2021, 9:26 pm Not a lot to go on but my guess is a Leptospermum species.

Thanks once again, I have kept it pinched back and never seen flowers so no idea what the flowers look like.

I have a Leptospermum lanigerum x with similar-looking leaves, but of course it's hard to say for sure.

Could be L. horizontalis, with the hard and spiky leaves. Best bet might be to haunt a native nursery with a sprig of what you've got in your hand...

If it is horizontalis, well done, they are not easy to get some shape into.

Please keep posting it.

Gavin

If it is a species of Leptospermum, then the catalogue for Belair doesn't have that many species. Those more familiar with the species listed in the attached may be able to narrow it down for you.

Thanks Gavin and Terry, I did locate a tag for L. continentale 'horizontalis' but discounted it after a quick google came up with a pick with a softer type of foliage. It was probably a generic photo of the boarder Leptospermum.

I did use wire on the trunk and major branches when young and intend to clip and grow in the future. I'm not sure how well it will bud back on old wood so I' trying to keep the growth in close an develop more branching now.

If it is horizontalis, it's unlikely to back-bud. Keep on top of it.

Gavin

unfortunately this one was a victim of curl grubs along with an E. nicholii.