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| View Poll Results: Which of these Specimen trees is your favorite (SEE LINK BELOW) | |||
| Baobab (Adansonia) |
  
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43 | 12.65% |
| Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) |
  
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38 | 11.18% |
| Banyan Tree (Ficus) |
  
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80 | 23.53% |
| Montezuma Cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) |
  
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17 | 5.00% |
| Quaking Aspen: Pando (Populus tremuloides) |
  
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10 | 2.94% |
| Chapel-Oak (Quercus robur) |
  
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16 | 4.71% |
| Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) |
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32 | 9.41% |
| Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) |
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46 | 13.53% |
| Circus Trees (Axel Erlandson's sycamores) |
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5 | 1.47% |
| Lone Cypress in Monterey (Cupressus macrocarpa) |
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11 | 3.24% |
| No Preference! |
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42 | 12.35% |
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21-Mar-2007
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Ten Most Magnificent Trees in the World
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22-Mar-2007
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I found this excerpt from the Trees of the World page on the Bristlecone Pine, Prometheus, particularly interesting:
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22-Mar-2007
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I voted for the tule tree....that is one cool tree... Do a search on it.
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22-Mar-2007
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baobab
I would have to vote for the baobab as the most emotional response I got out of that batch of pictures. For that is the nature of bonsai is to create an emotional image. I live on the coast withwhat's left of the truly grand coastal redwood. there are a lot of admirable trees to experience here.
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22-Mar-2007
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Those Baobabs look like something from another planet. ( not that I've ever been to another planet ... well ok there was one time but I won't go into that here)
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22-Mar-2007
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I just got this site emailed today and was just going to post it here!
Montezuma Cypress - awesome tree Also maybe pertinent to brians comments today re Sumo Bonsai as an example in the wild. Ken
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22-Mar-2007
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I voted Bristlecone Pine. I'm not sure how many know this, but Colorado has A LOT of Bristlecones and they are magnificient. Some of the best in the world!
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22-Mar-2007
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Definitely the Baobab, having seen them up close in real life i have really fallen in love with these unusual trees and their multiple uses.
Cheers Rowan
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22-Mar-2007
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All these trees and some of the photos are in a book called "Remarkable Trees of the World" by Thomas Pakenham...The book has alot more remarkable trees (including a terse chapter on bonsai) than these and is worth picking up
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Quote:
Andy Rutledge posted here about Pakenham awhile back. It seems he's a convert of the "bonsai is cruel to trees" school: http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/f59/tho...story-2738.html The photos on the link were attributed to a number of individuals' FLICKR accounts. They shouldn't be Pakenham's photos, although they could be the same subjects. He's a great photographer, anyway, no matter how misguided he is about bonsai. Regards, Matt
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