I have never seen one as bonsai before and there might very well be good reasons for that ; - )
I found this one this spring, and collected it because of the interesting bark and shape of the trunk
In the wild the growth is very coarse and the leaves are big.
It put out new growth everywhere, but like in the wild the growth was very coarse, the branches thickens very quickly and the diameter after one years free growth can be 2 cm, so they need to be cut back several times during summer to keep the growth under controll, and you need to wire the brances the first year they appear or they will not be bendable anymore.
This is what it looked like after the first shaping. I started to pinch back the new growth as soon as it started to grow to get better ramification. It is just an experiment and we'll see in the future if it's possible to develop decent ramification and to reduce the leafe size. The tree is about 75 cm tall.
It produces lots of red berrys in clusters in the wild, it stays on after the leafs fall off in autumn so that might be a nice feature if i can get it to produce berries in the future. ....
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