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It's Kev

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I’ve only seen this at my school, used as hedging or landscaping. I think it works because this light green foliage breaks the dark green from the Fukien tea trees. It seems like this thing got trimmed way down, and then they decided it’s too far away from the border line and yanked it out. So I dived into the pile of cuttings when I saw a stick with roots on it.
I’d really like to know what it is. I’ve googled extensively and even went over the edge of the map...the much dreaded 2nd page of search results.
Does anyone know?
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How you doing man?
Looks a lot like a Duranta Repens, here in brazil is very common. I grow some, they have pretty purple flowers.
Let's wait for more opinions.
peace!
 

It's Kev

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How you doing man?
Looks a lot like a Duranta Repens, here in brazil is very common.
peace!
Hey Dave, it is, thanks. Its something I've never heard of, so i threw the name into a google search and found some info, I even stumbled upon @StoneCloud 's blog where he's growing one. It doesn't seem too popular though because of it's extremely straight growth. But i'm gonna hang on to this one and keep it tiny.
 

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@kevinlovett86

Definitely Duranta Repens. I love the species and have found it to develop very quickly in my opinion. They put out tons of branching when pruned as well.

The branches will lignify quickly and you have to wire them kinda right on time haha....

Some problems I had with mine is that it was the only one of almost 40 trees to always get whitefly. I am not sure why, but other than that I have had no issues with it. They are tough as hell too!!

TIP: Keep the bark dry. They get lovel bark, but when you water try to keep the trunk dry near the soil or the bark will slowly crumble away.

I'm gonna be happy to see this one develop!! How tall is this one 6 inches?
 

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It’s only 120 mm, and I’m gonna keep it this small. I didn’t know that blog was yours until I saw the same photos on your bnut thread. I could see from your photos that it does back bud really well.

Funny thing is that I’m surrounded by these at my school, and they never really appealed to me, until o got one that is.
I did see another one a while ago that the kids have stomped down to the ground, need to go check on it. It would make a nice shohin sumo type if it did bounce back from its beating
 

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I went back to the cutting pile, and found another one, this is even taller at a staggering 130 mm. It’s got a single feeder root about a foot long. It was a bit limp by now, but I left it in a bucket of water until the leaves perked up.
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It doesn't seem too popular though because of it's extremely straight growth. But i'm gonna hang on to this one and keep it tiny.
The growth is as straight as we allow it to be. No problem to wire green and younger branches, clip & grow works well too.
BTW I like some googled multitrunk trees with heavy straight trunks, small shohins as well.
 
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