Triple Trunk Ficus Bonsai

Slender trunk trees such as maples and elms are best suited to this style.
Triple trunk ficus bonsai. Triple trunk style this has three five or seven trunks of different trunk diameters growing from a single root ball. Unfortunately i lost most of the photos from its purchase and the following 2 years. Bonsai in the media history of australian bonsai climate weather and timing. I borrowed the photo from bonsai empire.
A bonsai tree with two trunks from one set of roots is called sokan and trees with five or more trunks are called kabudachi. Although it is a triple trunk now it doesn t have to always be that way. It could be a twin trunk tree and a triple trunk clump combined. I e got 1 shot from last year and today.
It started as a triple trunk but i removed 2 of its trunks and rooted outas there own trees over. In training since 1974. The trunk is an old ponderosa pine but the grafted branches are japanese black pine. Gift of helen c.
It s hard to tell from this angle if all the trunks are sharing a single root system. If there are three trunks of differing diameters it is referred to as a father mother son arrangement. This very sweet clump style willow leaf ficus is by ernie hernandez this just might be a raft style planting. Ficus grevillea kunzea leptospermum melaleuca nothofagus cunninghamii.
Bonsai artists consider the 10 inch long needles of the ponderosa to be out of scale for bonsai. Just wanted to share a ficus i ve been working on for about 4 years.