Unidentifiable tree

[Forest Bean]

I just pulled this out of the ground and potted it. I have no idea what it is. I inlude a photo of a much larger tree with budding foliage. The buds are pink/red with green leaves. The new branches are green and bendy but become hard and grow bark on them. The branches and buds grow in sets of two. This tree has a lot of potential. Does anyone have any idea what this could be???

 

[Redwood Ryan]

Looks like pyracantha. I don't want to sound harsh, but it's best to not dig up a plant whose ID you're not sure of.

This little guy doesn't have a whole lot of potential, but it could be a good learning experience.

 

[Owen Reich]

Euonymus alatus

 

[Dav4]

Looks like burning bush, Euonymus alatus. They can make good bonsai if they have an interesting trunk...

 

[Redwood Ryan]

Ha, this is why I just grow ficus

 

[defra]

Yeah deffenatly euonymus alatus
Beautyfull fall collors!

 

[Cadillactaste]

Definitely NOT pyracantha. They hold their leaves...evergreen. Unless stressed and self defoliates as a means to the stress.

 

[Giga]

Def burning bush- just be aware this is a difficult species - and it you unsure of it, i'd say hit the books!


Also don't look like great soil

 

[milehigh_7]

Euonymus alatus

100%

 

[defra]

Def burning bush- just be aware this is a difficult species - and it you unsure of it, i'd say hit the books!


Also don't look like great soil

Why is it dificult?

 

[Potawatomi13]

Looks like pyracantha. I don't want to sound harsh, but it's best to not dig up a plant whose ID you're not sure of.

This little guy doesn't have a whole lot of potential, but it could be a good learning experience.

No thorns.

 

[Potawatomi13]

100%

Does that make it eunanimous?

 

[milehigh_7]

They are not bad, shallow fibrous root system, I believe single flush growth They can look really cool when they get older. Actually, I would chop it at the first branch and try to bend it down a bit more. Here is a quick virtual I'm tired so it's very sloppy.

 

[milehigh_7]

But yea that soil is killin me... might have to wait till next year at this point.

 

[Giga]

Single flush, don't always pop where you want them and can be finicky about root work. Tough old ones look great and the fall color is outstanding

 

[defra]

I have a alatus compacta wich is a small leaved variety and the corcky wings are much smaller than the regular alatus

I went pretty rough on the roots and placed it in full ground its leaving out very well luckily

 

[GailC]

I had a beautiful burning bush I bought last spring, really good potential as bonsai. I messed with the roots too much the wrong time of the year and killed the poor thing It was probably my best tree at the time, lesson learned. I'll try find another this year, they are stunning in the fall.

 

[ConorDash]

Perhaps slow down on changes or development? Let it grow strong and get healthy. If you don't touch it, its roots will grow better and it'll get more established, making it grow more vigorously. Don't wanna stress it too much, especially if it is not in ideal soil, as @Giga and @milehigh_7 are saying.

I'd suggest exercising patience, sorry to say! Let it be happy, grow and get strong, then it'll be popping buds everywhere and give you so much more choice on what to do, and will react to "insults" (work being done), better and faster.

 

[milehigh_7]

Even effects you don't chop it you can pull that branch down with a turnbuckle now. That way you will get more curve in the low part of the trunk.