Inspirational Trees

Some more trees

Here is a couple of rock clinging Wild Figs.

Wow, this is such an interesting thread guys!

Keep'm coming

Weeping Mulberry @ China Pavilion, EPCOT, Orlando, Florida

Ed Trout

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Hello,
In this photo, the tree is a Sophora or not ..

It is described as a weeping Mulberry on the Disney page, here http://www.wdisneyw.co.uk/atchina.html

Thank you Kev

chappy56 wrote:I find it interesting that nearly every time someone posts "inspirational trees" you see dead wood in the deciduous ones, but more times than not in Bonsai culture deciduous dead wood is frowned upon. Just my opinion.

Hi chappy 56
Have a look at Walter pall’s web site you’ll see good examples of dead wood and hollows in deciduous trees.

see here
http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.espritsdegoshin.fr%2F
great site with hours of bonsai

This is an oak which I stumbled across whilst out walking the dogs. Hope you like.

not a whole tree
but a pretty cool part of it
pics from my happy hunting grounds a few springs ago, main tree maple, small tree growing on fungus cedar with moss and lichens













i wonder how big the cedar will get

Very interesting, Andy. The bracket fungus looks like none that we get over here. Ours usually grow in one season and rot away over a couple of years after they have shed spore. This one looks like it keeps on growing, long enough for mosses and lichen to colonise it. If that is the case, perhaps the seedling tree will live for a few more years.

hi kev
i have seen this for four years now,you are right the fungus seems to be a lot older than that

Interesting, it appears to have growth layers, that could possibly be a guide to its age?

Interest piqued, I just googled Polypore it and found "Many of these woody fungi persist for several years, and a new layer of pores is superposed on the previous season's growth."

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/Toms_fungi/march99.html
hi kev
this is the species ..i cant find any info about how long lived they are
andy

Thanks that makes it easier "The average life span is five years but some old Ganoderma may reach ten years." from http://www.islandnet.com/~see/naturesong/plants/artfungus.htm

excellent
thanks kev ..i will keep a semi annual photo record of this one and its little tree from now on
andy

Great Pitch pine on a New England cliff.

from small beginings
a hemlock growing out of an old stump







andy

My daughter (arrow) standing next to a Baobab tree in South Africa!

A few more local trees.

A broad leaf grown in the form of informal upright.



this one takes the form of a broom.


The wind swept form.


With nature styling its trees in all forms i guess there will not be a given way to style broad leaves in the future.

Hello,..

Sometimes my girlfriend and i get up just before sunset to go to a near by forest.

This is what is presented to us!


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littleart
very nice
is the pine in your fourth picture considered a broom?
andy

Andy i wont participate in that discusion .