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Hello everybody,
My name is Dan, I'm 27, and relatively new to the world of bonsai, but have taken a headlong dive into it. I started about 6 months ago with the thought of buying my girlfriend a different plant for Valentine's day, end up with a plant for her and a juniper for me, now I have about 20 plants in all different stages of bonsai.

I do have a question for identification for one plant. The original plant I bought for my girlfriend was from a local bonsai dealer, he said the exact species if plant was unknown, but it's a relative of the boabab tree. I attached several images to help
The plant has a fuzzy texture on it, is very drought resistant and retains a lot of water. It roots very easily, it is very fast growing and I swear it has edema when fertilized consistently.

Not sure if any of that means anything, but any help trying to id it would be much appreciated.

Thanks for any help!

I can't I.d. it, but just out of curiousity, why did you chop it up? The original looked really nice with some bonsai potential. Now, frankly, you just have a bunch of chopped up plants.

Did your "headlong dive" into bonsai involve any reading &/or research?

It looks familiar. Are the the older stems hollow like a geranium?

The tree has been far from cut up, the two cuttings are: one from a minor trimming in late April when we decided on styling the original as a canopy style tree and removed some of the lower branches and the other is from last week. The top two pictures are from February. I'll post a new picture of the full tree tomorrow to defend my bonsai honor, and prove I didn't hack it up.

To put it in perspective the bigger cutting is not even a quarter the height of the full tree.

And I've been reading through several books on different aspects of bonsai, attend a few classes in my area and consistently read about bonsai on the internet.

So yes, I've read & researched

imafan26 wrote:It looks familiar. Are the the older stems hollow like a geranium?

No the stems are solid all the way through.

GardeningCook wrote:I can't I.d. it, but just out of curiousity, why did you chop it up? The original looked really nice with some bonsai potential. Now, frankly, you just have a bunch of chopped up plants.

Did your "headlong dive" into bonsai involve any reading &/or research?

This is the tree as of this morning