Worth collecting?
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Poink88
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What kind is it? Size?
Dav4
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Unless you're looking for something very unorthodox, the roots alone would scare me away. My .02
fourteener
Omono
What Dario asked plus the realization that there is nothing above six inches that has any future with the tree.
tmpgh
Shohin
I've no idea of the species. It's bare and i can't tell from the bark. The trunk itself was around an inch thick and that sideways grown base about 2 inches in diameter. The roots extend well away from the base and I don't know is there is a rootball beneath it or not. The surface roots in the picture also are at different heights. It's unusual, but I don't know it it's got any potential.
lordy
Omono
From strictly an "oddity" perspective, the rootage is definitely different. Based on the size of the leaves on the ground, it looks to be about 1-1/2" in diameter, and devoid of branches up to viewable height (18"?). Unless it is of the type that will bud back, I might be inclined to leave it. Undoubtedly there will be those here who will say you should collect it. I suppose it depends on what you like to do with your time and efforts.
Martin Sweeney
Chumono
Take some pictures of the branches, especially the buds. It is interesting start for making a small unusual tree, if it is a worthwhile specie.
Regards,
Martin
Regards,
Martin
jeanluc83
Omono
My guess based on the bark and the leaves on the ground is red maple, acer rubrum or sugar maple, acre saccharinum. I have a couple red maple that I collected last year. They are easy to collect and as far as I can tell just about bullet proof. Neither are really good candidates for bonsai though. I would go for it anyway. It is small enough that collection should be easy and the price is right.
Some of the first trees I collected that were bigger than seedlings, were sugar maples. A half dozen of them were practice subjects of mine for the next dozen years. By the time I was compelled to move (2010) I only had a couple of them left. Not because they were bad subjects, rather I had traded the others away.
Sugar maple internode length will reduce as long as you are merciless about only leaving the first pair of leaves during spring. AND cutting the majority of leaves into little stubs; which makes a second smaller set grow.
1., the price is right (free)
2., the rigor of skill is low
3., autumnal color alone justifies keeping them.
Sugar maple internode length will reduce as long as you are merciless about only leaving the first pair of leaves during spring. AND cutting the majority of leaves into little stubs; which makes a second smaller set grow.
1., the price is right (free)
2., the rigor of skill is low
3., autumnal color alone justifies keeping them.
