I can’t identify this “garden yamadori”.
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It came from my parents’ yard in Benton County, WA. Climate zone 7A. It’s some kind of volunteer seedling. We dug it up in late March as a straight stick with buds on it. So I bent it around a little as my first attempt at wiring anything ever.
My dad thought it was a maple, because he’s dug those out of his flower beds before. But I would expect the leaves to be opposite, rather than alternate if that was true. The leaves are way more palmate than an oak–the primary venation in the leaves is palmate, secondary veins are alternate. I was wondering about White Mulberry, which does grow wild around here, but the leaves seem too finely divided? Next guess is a weird Hawthorn? No thorns visible, though. Some kind of currant?
Bark is tan and smooth, buds were alternate and very tight to the trunk. The roots looked like normal deciduous roots, with a pretty big taproot–less than pencil thick. Whole tree was about 22" tall before wiring.
It’s growing great in a 80/20 perlite/peat fines mix with some biogold. The top two buds seem to have died, along with a couple others, but I’m getting 4" twigs with lots of leaves.
So either it grew from a fruit or nut carried by an animal, or was wind distributed. I haven’t seen anything similar within three blocks of where it was collected, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Anyway, please speculate away. Thanks.
