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Good Morning all,

Well its a lovely wet morning here in Vic, great for the plants. A few days ago, I needed to remove some plants from my garden and decided to save a couple of them. 2 of them are camelias and the other one I am unsure of. I have all of them sitting in a seasol solution and will be moving them to there grow boxes on the weekend.

Below are some photos of the tree. What sort of tree is it?? Is it suited to bonsai?? Any suggestions for what to do next?? Thanks again in advance

Funny, not all the images loaaded straight away and that made me write the wrong reply. I'll have to wait for someone more knowledgeable than me to put forward an opinion.

Lisa

looks like a bottlebrush (Calistamon) though the flower would normally be more substantial than this one. Could be Calothamnus. I THINK its just a bottlebrush and the flower photographed was only little Looks like great bonsai material, Character bark, lots of movement in the trunk, tightly packed leaves, nice flowers. Excellent! Someone else will know what to do with it though

Have fun...

neal.

looks like callistemon to me aswell, maybe the captain cook variety? is that the dwarf one?

hey hutch,

by the look of the bark and leaf id say its a callistemon aswell, not sure on the type tho

I agree it is a Callistemon; but not Viminalis "Captain Cook". Flowers are wrong and foliage coarser.

Maybe "Little John" perhaps?

Good find though.

Grant

i thought it to be one of the darf varieties, not good with native ID myself though, cheers grant

Thanks for the I.D. help everyone. Its a calistamon of some variety, could possibly be the dwarf variety..just after a few ideas now on what I should do with it??.. anyone out there in bonsai land with suggestions..

For now, just pot it up and hope it survives! Onces you know it's healthy, you can do more work!!

Will do Jarrod,

If she makes it through, I'll bring it to a workshop and see what everyone thinks!

Sounds like a plan, got my fingers crossed, though it doesn't have a lot of roots left.

yeah I know, It was in a very awkward spot to dig up and unfortunately alot of the roots were sacrificed.. time will tell

Callistemon 'Little John'. I had no doubt except for the fact that it's a giant when I took a double take. 'Little John' is usually 1m high, though I've seen one getting closer to 1.5m.

Credit to NBPCA.

http://www.google.com.au/images?q=calli ... ittle+john <--- check some of these images