ID for this tree?

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Identification? Is it worth trying to grow out?
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Bonsai Nut

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We have to wait for NZ hours for him to reply... but in the interim let me add: any tree is worth growing! It is certainly a conifer of some type (ie not a weed) and even though it is a small thing now, there is something rewarding about starting a tree that will likely outlive you.

And if it is a NZ native... there are probably tons of people on this site curious about learning more. NZ doesn't as a rule export many of its native plants.
 

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Cheers all! More replies than I was expecting!
Was cleaning up around the house and saw this beside the driveway and thought it had potential (glad it’s not a weed, my amateur botany could have me fooled.) Pictures point me to pahautea - http://www.nzplants.auckland.ac.nz/...nifers/cupressaceae/libocedrus-bidwillii.html specifically the 3rd picture but these are usually found a tiny bit further south than where I live. Also maybe rimu - http://www.nzplants.auckland.ac.nz/...fers/podocarpaceae/dacrydium-cupressinum.html

If that’s the case according to http://bonsainz.com/wp/native-trees-as-bonsai/ NZ natives as bonsai;
Kawaka Pahautea
NZ’s only ‘cedars’. Slow-growing. Hard to transplant.

Rimu
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Forest giant. Grows readily but pendulous branchlets make realism difficult.
 

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One sure thing needs to be in container with good drainage holes in bottom;).
 

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wait for NZ hours

And bloody asketmatched approval BS! Lol damn links!

I say common Juniper too....which means it's probly some native that starts life like that....I think that maples juvenile growth is similar....lol!

If it IS that weeper that's dope!

Sorce
 
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