Triple Trunk Maple Bonsai

Bonsai created from trees collected from the outdoors start out with a thicker more mature trunk.

Triple trunk maple bonsai. The chinese boxwood can be kept indoors but it prefers to be placed outside during the summer. Forum for discussion of evergreen bonsai buxus cotoneaster olive etc. This article describes one method of developing a multi trunk bonsai. It also illustrates a technique for developing the nebari surface roots that can be used for trees with single trunks in development for bonsai.

Let s look at a branch. As a wild tree it grows 20 35 feet tall occasionally more and usually has several trunks rather than a single central trunk. Before it was pruned this bonsai was a 23 foot tall tree. Although it is a triple trunk now it doesn t have to always be that way.

Japanese maples grow wild across the hills of japan korea and into mongolia and russia too. Alternating pairs are arranged 90 from the previous pair. First time out since 2018. You ll see that the leaves are attached to the trunk in pairs as shown in figure 3.

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. This is the oldest bonsai in the museum and was in the same family in japan from the time it was created almost 400 years ago until gifted to the u s. In the picture below there is a branch the splits left and right. The bark is smooth and gray on older limbs but green red or sometimes pink on younger shoots.

Specific care bonsai guidelines for the buxus boxwood position. I wrestle the root ball down to a manageable size and get it into a wide flat pot. Western sydney nsw australia. For clarity one up and one down leaf have been.

In training since 1625. A bonsai tree with two trunks from one set of roots is called sokan and trees with five or more trunks are called kabudachi. The common boxwood should be positioned outside in a sunny or semi shaded place in the winter a cold greenhouse is ideal for winter protection. Time to catch up with my fusion project trying to create a chunky field maple bonsai.

A multi trunk or clump form bonsai has three or more odd numbered trunks growing from the same root base.