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7-Jun-2008
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bonsaiTALK Journeyman
Join Date: Jun-2008
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Please help me identify! [Big Pics!]
Hello,
apologies if I have landed up in the wrong forum section. I have been growing and tending to bonsai'ed variations in the past 5 years. This year however, I've been stumped by a tree that I acquired this year through good fortune alone. I initially thought it was an elm. It then became obvious to me that elms do not produce spherical, fruit or budding type structures from their nodes. I was indicated on the UBC botanical forum that this is a ficus benjamina but I am now confused as after searching online for ficus benjamina trees, no ficus benjamina looks like my tree. My tree's nodes are hairy or fuzzy. The spherical structures have not produced small pea-sized fig-resembling fruit. Instead, they have produced white flowers. Do these flowers precede the fruit? I have read elsewhere that many rarely or never see ficus flower. Is my tree a ficus? Would someone please put me out of my misery and help me identify or confirm the identity (so that I may better care for it)?? I should also add that the flowers are scentless. Thank you kindly...   |
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7-Jun-2008
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livingart bonsai's
Join Date: Mar-2008
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you are right it is not a ficus or elm, it does look a little like a gardenia of the dwarf type. find a book on flowering shrubs/trees you may find a pic there.
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7-Jun-2008
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bonsaiTALK Journeyman
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It is a Fukien Tea tree.
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8-Jun-2008
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bonsaiTALK Journeyman
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Thank you both for your replies. Eit, I checked out the Fukien trees online and AT LAST! I have found my tree amongst its kin. For the last time, I hope. I was advised that it was a Serissa of some kind previously. I am confused and weary, hoping this is the end of my search. This tree has gone through mistaken identities 4 times.
Would anyone know how related Serissa and the family to which Fukien Tea are? Are they closely related? They have different scientific names. I am wondering because the flowers are so similar as are the growth. Last edited by Flaxe : 8-Jun-2008 at 04:12 AM. |
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8-Jun-2008
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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
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8-Jun-2008
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bonsaiTALK Journeyman
Join Date: Jun-2008
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Thank you, JayC. I thought so too. Peculiar little buggers.
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17-Jun-2008
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quite definitely a fukien tea. Pop off the flowers as they wilt and it will keep making more flowers.
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18-Jun-2008
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bonsaiTALK Journeyman
Join Date: Jun-2008
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Thank you for the tip, and reassurance of fukien tea. I always deadhead on other plants but have left the flowers on this tree alone to dry up and fall off. They are quite tiny and in ....total plenitude, making for quite an exercise if plucked off individually. Maybe if I pull out my blow dryer...
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