# Yellow buds or something else **URL:** \ **Category:** Horticulture\ **Created:** [October 31, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/yellow-buds-or-something-else/8985 "2021-10-31T00:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mick\_lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mick\_lord](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/Mick_lord)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/yellow-buds-or-something-else/8985/1 "2021-10-31T00:59:39Z")
Does anyone know if these yellow bumps are normal and just new growth or are they something to worry about ![IMG20211031105424](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/3X/d/0/d0b42ec3cafc3e5c84d165e3cecd539b54907d02.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MtBakerBonsai](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.bonsaimirai.com/mtbakerbonsai/32/23909_2.png) [@MtBakerBonsai](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/MtBakerBonsai)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/yellow-buds-or-something-else/8985/2 "2021-10-31T15:19:58Z")
What species of tree? ---
**Author:** ![KurtP](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.bonsaimirai.com/kurtp/32/16188_2.png) [@KurtP](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/KurtP)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/yellow-buds-or-something-else/8985/3 "2021-10-31T18:45:18Z")
It would be nice to know where you are… I am in the inland Pacific NW USA. These appear to be profuse back budding on a juniper (?), HOWEVER… . Went to a workshop with Dave Degroot (was curator of Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection…), had a VERY similar node on a medium sized Japanese shimpaku juniper. Largish greenish/ grey bud on main trunk. Had been there several summers. Asked him if it was a parasite, maybe holley… completely baffled him. He did say it did NOT look like a bud. At home , I carefully cut it out to the beap-seated base with surgical scapel. Looked like a teardrop. No obvious connection to the tree systems. WAS NOT a leaf bud. The wound healed over nicely very quickley. Has not reoccured in any other bonsai… ---
**Author:** ![Mick\_lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mick\_lord](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/Mick_lord)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/yellow-buds-or-something-else/8985/4 "2021-10-31T19:51:45Z")
Sorry for lack of info. It’s a juniper and I’m in Australia. We are in mid spring season and this is the only spot on the trunk that I have noticed them ---
**Author:** ![Lani](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.bonsaimirai.com/lani/32/333_2.png) [@Lani](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/Lani)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/yellow-buds-or-something-else/8985/5 "2021-10-31T20:37:41Z")
Could the bumps be root nodes? I know that if a juniper branch touches the soil that it will sprout roots and layer itself. ---
**Author:** ![Kenez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@Kenez](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/Kenez)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 5:50am UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/yellow-buds-or-something-else/8985/6 "2021-11-01T05:50:32Z")
It looks like scar tissue to me. From what I see it’s only growing from places where small twigs were removed and as the trunk is expanding it’s healing over. ---
**Author:** ![Mick\_lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mick\_lord](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/Mick_lord)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/yellow-buds-or-something-else/8985/7 "2021-11-01T09:41:13Z")
My juniper is about 80cm tall and it’s about 30cm up the trunk so it isn’t close to the soil so I’m not sure ---
**Author:** ![KurtP](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.bonsaimirai.com/kurtp/32/16188_2.png) [@KurtP](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/KurtP)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/yellow-buds-or-something-else/8985/8 "2021-11-03T01:11:38Z")
Regardless, …do you NEED a new limb at ANY of these locations? Pop any buds that you don’t want. If any of the remaining new growth eventually grow into unidentifiable “things” let us know. . Does Australia have plant parasitic entities? I don’t have to go far, here, to point at tree parasitic growths!