Hello Alex.
It's hard to know, but it really looks like an "Duranta Repens" or "Duranta Erecta Aurea", and I just say that because of the trunk color and texture, leaf shape and the way that shoot grows... (So I might be wrong, even more about the variations, which the differences are really small between).
I assume you may be on winter right now... These plants are native from here (Brazil/South America), and at the summer (here) it grows as fast as weeds, and show a vibrant yellowish green color, where it's name came from (here called Pingo-de-Ouro or Golden Dewdrop). It's widely used here as living fence or trimmed tree/hedge/shrubs, and yes, bonsais too, at least around here, because of it's easy care, fast growth and different color.
It's generally planted on full sun spots, and can take some frosts where I live (coldest regions of Brazil), but I don't know about that where you live...
I know it doesn't bother to get all the sun that it can, The more sun it takes, the more vibrant it's color gets, and smaller the leaves (less sun = darker green and bigger leaves)
Their trunks seems to age fast, so you might be carefull about that, if you search for bonsais of that species on the internet you'll see a fair amount of them are later reworked on the deadwood by carving, and that's because it happens...
They also have flowers and little orange fruits (not edible), by spring/early summer.
They need to be trimmed, because it's shoots are long (as you can see) and frequent, but mostly on it's most active period (hotter).
So for your plant, I would try to put outside, but not too exposed, as I don't know how cold is there...
I would trim just if a shoot get big as that one... Otherwise wait for spring/summer to make the real trimming (you'll see how it grows)...
The pot seems a lil small for me, but that's totally up to you and what size you want for that tree, I would maybe put it on a big mesh pot for growing it bigger and training it... But that's just me, some people like it smaller...
However, this species is awesome to have as a first one, it allows you to learn, and can take some mistakes.
So wait for this summer and see how it responds, and those big leaves seems to be telling you it want more light.
Sorry for the big text, good luck with it!
Last edit: 3 years 11 months ago by Albas.
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