AusBonsai

Lovely aged appearance

Lovely Tree Symon. Great to see a rainforest tree with such high development.

You said in your first post that they are sometimes called Native Laurels because of the smell from the crushed leaves. But I believe its because they are from the Lauraceae family. (You may already know this) I have a few different species from the Lauraceae family that seem to do well as Bonsai. Nothing of this girth as they have all been grown from seeds or seedlings. Of the Rainforest trees I have tried, they seem to branch much more easily.

Species Im currently growing,

Ediandra globosa - Black Walnut (Not an actually walnut obviously)
Cryptocarya lavigata - Glossy Laurel
Cyptocarya triplenervis - Three veined laurel (Great examples by the coast around here. Old craggy bark, lots of rotting deadwood and lush full foliage)
And a couple of recently acquired Litsea reticulata (Bollygum) which have lots of branches on a 20cm tall tube stock seedling

Hey Dan, that's an exciting bunch of species. I can wait to see how they turn out. We don't see many Australian rainforest trees but there are so many great species. The major challenge is that tend to have big lush looking leaves, which ultimately you will want to reduce. I can't believe you are doing a bollygum!

The other challenge is how to style them. In the forest they rocket dead straight to the sky. Should you give them twisty trunks? What should the branches look like?

KCR - thanks buddy!
Cheers
Symon