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Have a go at identifying these two, I got them as tube stock but have no idea what they are.
One may be a type of Melaleuca and the other a type of Gum.

Best of luck
Mick

this is a hard one mick i think they are cant see them

Ooops the photos

The melaleuca The Gum Ok lets see what we come up with now

Mick

hello pictures where you come from
mick the leaf colour on the gum makes me think it is a blue gum
but the melaleuca i cant be sure sorry couldnt be better help
cheers dean the terrible

Thanks Dean the terrible, maybe we can get someone else to help nudge it along.
Regards Mick

Are they bought or dug? The first looks to me like it may be a Leptospermum. Flowers and fruit would be helpful with the identification. The second may be a Eucalyptus pauciflora (snow gum).

Joel

Hi Joel,
No i got them as tube stock last year, you mybe right the first maybe a Leptospermum.
Still not sure on the Gun/Eucalyptus tho.

Though colour and leaf shape look like snowgum I do not think it is. Snowgums have veins running the length of the leaf. This one has the normal branching leaf vein structure. Certainly not the blue gum that I know either (though common name bluegum is applied to a number of different species). Bluegum, E. globulus has large, blue/ whitish juvenule leaves in pairs without stalk (sessile) and very long adult leaves, quite unlike those on this plant.
Must be some sort of nursery that sells tubes but doesn't know what they are????

As Joel points out, almost impossible to identify with the few scraps of info you've given us. Flowers and fruit are usually needed for positive id. Shape, size, bark type and habit of the adult tree are very useful with leaf shape and arrangement just narrowing it down a tiny fraction.

Thanks Shibui for your reply, the few scraps of info is all I have at the moment until as you say it flowers or what ever happens in this case.
I received them from one of those green groups that hang around shopping centres and the like, I planted the grass plants they gave me, read the pamphlets, but decided to pot up these two for potential Bonsai as we do.
This is all I have atm, sorry.

Mick

Gday Mick & Co!

I was trawling the site for some other info when I came across this post. The foliage (and juvenile bark) on your little Euc looks a lot like the leaves on a Yellow Box (E. melliodora) that I have in had for some years now (see HERE).

As Shibui rightly points out, without flowers/seeds to reference, positive identification is almost impossible. (In all my years of playing with Eucs, I have have only once seen the beginnings of flower buds, so I don't know if flowering happens often in captivity.)

Thanks, and good luck!

Fly.