Triple Trunk Ficus Bonsai

This bonsai tree with three trunks is a sankan one with one trunk is called tankan and trees divided into two or more trunks are classified as takan.

Triple trunk ficus bonsai. Bonsai in the media history of australian bonsai climate weather and timing. The trunk is an old ponderosa pine but the grafted branches are japanese black pine. Aside from the how well the trunks and crown all go together there s that perfect pot and those well placed little spots of moss. Unfortunately i lost most of the photos from its purchase and the following 2 years.

In training since 1974. Although it is a triple trunk now it doesn t have to always be that way. Bonsai artists consider the 10 inch long needles of the ponderosa to be out of scale for bonsai. It could be a twin trunk tree and a triple trunk clump combined.

It started as a triple trunk but i removed 2 of its trunks and rooted outas there own trees over. A very unusual bonsai. Slender trunk trees such as maples and elms are best suited to this style. I borrowed the photo from bonsai empire.

Ficus grevillea kunzea leptospermum melaleuca nothofagus cunninghamii. Triple trunk style this has three five or seven trunks of different trunk diameters growing from a single root ball. This very sweet clump style willow leaf ficus is by ernie hernandez this just might be a raft style planting. Just wanted to share a ficus i ve been working on for about 4 years.

It s hard to tell from this angle if all the trunks are sharing a single root system. Gift of helen c.