FICUS MICROCARPA - var.Nitida.

ozzerbon

G’day all,

For all Ficus lovers….Read it and weep, these trees have just hit Amsterdam, and for only 6euro [$7.80] for one or 10euro [$13.00] for two, who can go wrong?

FICUS MICROCARPA - var.Nitida. - [Tiger bark]

Genus: Moraceae.
Common name: Indian Laurel Fig.

Style: Exposed root [NE-AGARI]. Vase-shape [ROSOKU-ZUKURI] - ?
Size: Height, 24cm [9 ½“].

Container: Oval, brown, unglazed, Japanese pot with linear surface decoration.
Width, 20.5cm [8“], depth, 16cm [6 ¼“], height, 6cm [2 ¼“].

Origin: Collected bonsai specialist #2, Amsterdam, February 2 2207.
Age:
Indigenous: India and Malaysia.

Particular characteristics:
Lustrous evergreen foliage, glabrous oval leaves tapering to acuminate tip, leaves very persistent, trunk and branches have thin, smooth, grayish white bark with lenticels on small branches, latex producer.

Regards,
Nigel

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zen

I rather like it. It's footbridge and forest all in one image,...how great !
If you see the same thing and wnat to play it up, you could place moss just on the two sides of the pot where the roots go into the ground, and leave a "stream" that flows through the open spot.

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tiffle

...almost. Great possibilities and I do love Ficus!

zen

Or something like that,.....LOL
Of course the mudman is just my own little kitsche touch. xD

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zen

I will take the lack of response to the virt as admiration. LOL

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ozzerbon

Howdy Zen,

Please give me a break sport, just not enough time to get back to answering your email [kept in my email box on the queue waiting] with your fair Virt' with a really tiny mudman [sadly can't quite make him out],

Nice'n'cool, but not my kinda scene. I do use mudmen but keep them apart, on the same display slab or give them a small stand all of their own, yours I fear will have his head knocked off if one of those leaves were to fall on him....LOL!

Growing it indoors so that cuts out the idea of using moss to emphasize the pathway.

Regards,
Nigel

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weeijk

Hi Nigel,


I think you have a very nice starter (at least IMO) here, with a very good trunkline.
I personally don't like the style, with the tunnel like root and the bushy folliage on top. For that reason I isolated its trunkline, to give an example of how I see it.
I would style it in a moyogi style, or moyogi broom style.

Wessel

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ozzerbon

Wes, ya've lost the plot, and demolished the tree, removed the exposed root [the reason why I bought it], and turned it into just yer average stump, or whatever.

No thank you.

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weeijk

Hi Nigel,

In my initial post I had enetered the sentence "as I know you a little and I believe I do, you don't agree with my thoughts" meaning just as you replied above.


Wessel

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