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Hello all, I have taken this plant from a friend to try and help it but it started growing these thing all over it please help!!

It is a Fukien tea bonsai! Thank you all! Really want to save it it still produces lots of flowers but is getting covered by these monsters!

hunterfro wrote: it started growing these thing all over[.quote]

The plant is not growing these things... they have infected it. These are woolly aphids.

spray with insecticidal soap or neem oil. Hurry up, too, they will damage the leaves and weaken the plant.

Insecticide for sure! In the future, if you cut the flowers off before they open you wont get nearly as many insect issues with that tree.

WuWu wrote: In the future, if you cut the flowers off before they open you wont get nearly as many insect issues with that tree.

Do you have a resource for that statement? Seems to me the aphids are not coming for the flowers.

Auk wrote:

WuWu wrote: Seems to me the aphids are not coming for the flowers.

I agree, they are not there to eat the flowers just attracted to scent. This is personal experience.

WuWu wrote:

Auk wrote:

WuWu wrote: Seems to me the aphids are not coming for the flowers.

I agree, they are not there to eat the flowers just attracted to scent. This is personal experience.

Did you have a plant with flowers, and the same plant without flowers, and did the one with flowers attract more?

Indeed, I however only tried this one time. In general I don't have much luck with Fukien Tea trees. They don't grow especially well for me.

WuWu wrote: Indeed, I however only tried this one time. In general I don't have much luck with Fukien Tea trees. They don't grow especially well for me.

So, we can safely say that, as this was a one time occurrence, there is not enough evidence to support your statement.