Thanks for the link you might be right. I'll try to get a better picture of it. If it's a ukigumo is it good for bonsai? Also being in tenn should I assume it's not a native tree around here?I can't tell from that pic if it is an Acer or not. It looks a bit like the new growth of A.p. 'Ukigumo'. As the leaves mature that cultivar changes to a mottled green and white. It frequently produces green leaves as well.
Here is what my Ukigumo looks like. The newest growth is still pink tinged but it's mostly green.
Here is what these trees *sometimes* look like in spring:
http://www.paghat.com/images/floatingcloud_may.jpg
Not positive either but pretty sure it's coming with me when I leave tomorrow. Going to try and dig it with disturbing as little as the roots as possible.Not sure what it is, but I am sure its pretty darn cool.
So true and hopefully I can chalk one up for the alive side on this one.Real World "out of season" death %
Test number one!
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Wish I could leave it and get it later. I'm at a birthday party for the weekend in tenn and I'm from Ohio. This thing is growing wild on the hillside going down to the lake so it's a now or never on this one. Being so small in hoping will make it easier since the roots won't be as fa out so hopefully I can get most/all of them.You can dig a large rootball around it and it should be fine. Or, you can scoop it up early in spring and have a relatively bigger trunk, and be able to be more aggressive on root pruning. Which alternative you choose will either set you back a year or benefit the long term goal, its up to you. Cool plant, I say leave it, for a couple years, as long as it is accessible later on.
I knew you would... I woulda too.Not positive either but pretty sure it's coming with me when I leave tomorrow.
Yeah I couldn't leave it behind I had to try.I knew you would... I woulda too.
Yeah I couldn't leave it behind I had to try.
Well that would suck somewhat. Living in Ohio with a bunch of buckeye just to go to Tennessee and dig up a buckeye. Makes since though because I was really wondering why a Japanese maple would be growing wild in tenn. I know buckeye isn't great for bonsai but would one be better than another. Living in Ohio I did want to have a buckeye just for the novelty of it being the state tree.I'm guessing it's a buckeye. In Tennessee there are a bunch - Yellow, Red, Ohio Buckeye - maybe more. But those look like they could be buckeye leaves to me. If so, the color is just from growing in the shade.
Should do great in Ohio. It's the buckeye state!
Well that would suck somewhat. Living in Ohio with a bunch of buckeye just to go to Tennessee and dig up a buckeye. Makes since though because I was really wondering why a Japanese maple would be growing wild in tenn. I know buckeye isn't great for bonsai but would one be better than another. Living in Ohio I did want to have a buckeye just for the novelty of it being the state tree.