Mystery seedling

Cathie

Hi, I know you all just love notes like this, but I'm at a loss, and will welcome any ideas, creative as they might be . I've germinated a seed and it's now a few inches tall, with branches, however I have no idea what it is, and perusal of seed packets at hand doesn't show any matches. It's branched almost right from sprouting, into 2-3 mains, and then secondaries off those. The stems are threadlike, quite a light color (between white and honey) and the leaves very tiny, not even 1/8". They're round, with no sign of scallops or serrations, and only very slightly concave (to the backs), and no obvious veining, though possibly the most faint of future crease lines... or possibly imagined! The color is uniformly light, bright green, similar to e.g. Swedish ivy in reasonable light, and the leaves are not particularly thin as a prunus would have, though not necessarily thick or rubbery either. The very general growth is relatively flat (i.e. branching is outward and up, but in more or less one plane so far) with a definite apical main trunk, but others are not too much shorter. Leaves come directly off branches and show no sign of compounding. Any hints at all would be helpful! Thank you.

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soonami

Ever hear the saying: "a picture is worth a thousand words?"

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Show us a photo and we can better help you ID it

Cathie

Sorry, can't do (wouldn't tried so hard to describe it if I did).

Vance Wood

The description sounds like a germinated Pine seed of some sort. Possibly from a squirrel or other critter that carried it from another location and forgot where they stashed it. But, it really is impossible to be correct without a photo.

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Cathie

Thanks, but no needles, just leaves (and lots of them).

caro

Hi Cathie
The best thing you can do is go to your library, find a book on trees that has a guide in it with leaf shape groups , from there you might be able to find what type of tree family it is from.
I have a book which I find very useful.
It's from a collins nature guide & it's called...
Trees of britain & Europe. ( I gather your not in UK though).
The photo's include good close ups of (just for example) pines with different varieties of cones & needles.It even tells you the lenght of their needles.
It gives you all the different tree families & their own varieties.
There's probably the equivalent in your library.
It's not a bonsai book but it's still about trees.
Other than that, try & track it down through google or whatever you use.
caro

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