Your wrong, its an emperor flower, im sure of it.
Thanks for this! I may even be able to post a tree on this thread! All of my trees fall into this category...Not a masterpiece... not even a bonsai ...
Looks like one of them rare Chinese emperor flowers to me. I believe they were not to be taken outside the forbidden city. It was fav past time of the city guards seeing who could smuggle a cutting out, with out being caught, hung, burned, quartered, tortured, decapitated and made to eat sushi.