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Bonsai mai-farli-bene
Join Date: Nov-2005
Location: Bremerton, WA
Country: USA
Posts: 1,389
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Little Pine (WARNING: Embedded Photographs)
My friends....
I wish to present to you all an interesting tree.
A small pine tree that belongs to my teacher. He collected it from a place where the soil is very acidic. Dan tells me it is the acid which has stunted the tree.
I am fascinated by this tree. It is old, but we can not guess its age. He is concerned that the tree will try to grow large, if it is in bonsai soil. So he keeps it, for now, in the same soil it grew in.
The base of this tree is about 1/2 of an inch.
In the photos I show the many layers of the bark, and how cracked it is. When I first saw this tree, I thought it had been in a fire. Because the bark reminded me of burned wood.
I believe it is a ponderosa pine. There are no plans to do anything to it. The bark is to fragile to wire. Sometimes it is best to leave the work Nature has done alone. Because to try and improve upon something so rare, would ruin it.
Kind regards,
Victrinia
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