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Posted 6 years 6 months ago #48510
It just appeared in a pot on my terrace about 4 years ago.
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I've just given it a brutal pruning and repotted it with a view to it becomming my first boasai.
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Posted 6 years 6 months ago #48516
Don't post twice the same questions, please?
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Posted 6 years 6 months ago #48518
Im going to say Hornbeam
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Posted 6 years 6 months ago #48520

DomPerkins wrote: Im going to say Hornbeam[/quote

Of the elm variety?
I would guess based on the images here elm, could be chinese elm.

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Posted 6 years 6 months ago #48522
Chinese Elm or Japanese Elm-Zelkova
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Posted 6 years 6 months ago #48524
It looks just like several I have dug up recently, which are elm of some kind but definitely not Chinese. one has wings in the bark, so either winged or cork bark. There is probably a Latin name for them.
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Posted 6 years 6 months ago #48613
Do you live in the Northeast? if so I think it may be a birch if it just grew spontaneously in a pot.
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Posted 6 years 6 months ago #48621
No, I live in the center of Rome, in Italy.
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Posted 6 years 6 months ago #48623

Zenzero wrote: No, I live in the center of Rome, in Italy.


Nice!
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Posted 6 years 6 months ago #48673
I am sorry, I have just saw a Carpinus betulus / European hornbeam online and its leaves look exactly like yours.
I don't remember seeing hornbeams around here, so based on the leaves I guessed (wrongly) some sort of Elm.
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