Is this Itoigawa juniper

[Rinzler720]

Hello I wanted to know if this juniper is an itoigawa, or maybe taiwan, or sargentii because I really don't know. Thank you!

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Where did you get it and where are you located?

 

[Bob Vance]

I'm far from an expert but it has 2 things I use to confirm itogawa. So to me it looks like one.

 

[Rinzler720]

I'm far from an expert but it has 2 things I use to confirm itogawa. So to me it looks like one.

thank you! would mind sharing those two things please?

 

[Bob Vance]

The juvenile foliage at the bottom, and the loose foliage where mature. Again I could be very wrong. Where did you get it?

 

[Rinzler720]

I bought it at a nursery in Central America.

 

[Paradox]

Hmm IDK.
It does not look like itoigawa to me

 

[leatherback]

This is absolutely not an itoigawa.
The foliage is way too loose and open, no natural clumping of more mature foliage.

Could be pfitzeriana, which superficially looks similar, untill you start and try to make a bonsai out of it.

 

[Shibui]

The foliage is way too loose and open, no natural clumping of more mature foliag

Interestingly the clone we have here that's claimed to be Itiogawa has more open foliage than our traditional 'Shimpaku' - at least as a young, developing specimen. I am told that open Itiogawa foliage will become much more dense when trimming begins?

Hello I wanted to know if this juniper is an itoigawa, or maybe taiwan, or sargentii because I really don't know. Thank you!

All of these are varieties of Juniper chinensis. In other words, very slightly different types of the same species. They will all respond to exactly the same treatment. Is it so important to know the variety name? IMHO it's much more about the quality of the tree you can produce than the name of the variety.

 

[ShimpakuBonsai]

This doesn't look like Itoigawa to me but I can't tell you what it is.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Were you told by the nursery that it is itoigawa?

 

[Ruddigger]

There are variations even within the name itoigawa, but that does look very similar. It’s some form of Chinensis, to be sure.

 

[BrightsideB]

If it was a regular landscape nursery. I’d think chinensis monlep. Common name is mint juniper. They have similar features in color to itoigawa.