Phempis acidula

Hi IBC.

Summer is here and it's phempis time once again.









Have to deal with some woods...









Done major works for the day... detailing next.

















The tree is sitting naturally in a white rock, and I wanted to highlight the clasping and twisting of the shari onto the rock. this means more exposure of the rock base and wood carving at the base.



regards,
jun  

Hi Jun,
great material beautiful job   
I wish we had this species here, it looks awesome .
keep "bombing" us with your trees   

Regards,
Efi

nice, jun.

and I thought I liked BIG

best wishes, sam

Thanks Sam and Efi.

here is more detailing works...





Juniper style deadwood seems not appropriate for tropical trees so I am trying to give more rotten looks to the wood, as what a troical deadwood should look like IMHO.





and give more shari to the tree trunk and the left side area




regards,
jun  

black and white to see what it might look like when aged.

I love your work Jun! Beautiful tree!

Hey Jun,
Great tree!! I always look forward to your posts!!
Tona

beautifull tree indeed,

keep up the goood works


aHmed

L.L.B,

I look at your effort and the size of that monster, and then I laugh, when I remember you teasing me about my pemphist twiglet [ which is due to be shipped to the sea side to grow ] after I take about 10 cuttings.

I find your concept of - rotted wood - an excellent idea, and a good move away from the juniper envy one often sees on tropical trees.

You will see my effort in 10 years or so, but I doubt if it will have rotted wood.
Much thanks for the inspiration.
Stay Well.
Khaimraj

Efi,

look up Suriana maritima, grows in Miami.
Perhaps you can get some seed.
Later.
Khaimraj

Wow, I never knew about this species.  It should grow perfectly in my climate.  Great tree and thanks for sharing!

edit: after some research, I've read that this species needs to be sprayed/watered with saltwater from time to time. Can you confirm this Jun?
Thanks

Khaimraj Seepersad wrote:Efi,

look up Suriana maritima, grows in Miami.
Perhaps you can get some seed.
Later.
Khaimraj

This is a completely different species, no?

evmibo wrote:

Khaimraj Seepersad wrote:Efi,

look up Suriana maritima, grows in Miami.
Perhaps you can get some seed.
Later.
Khaimraj

This is a completely different species, no?

yes, different.

evmibo wrote:Wow, I never knew about this species.  It should grow perfectly in my climate.  Great tree and thanks for sharing!

edit: after some research, I've read that this species needs to be sprayed/watered with saltwater from time to time.  Can you confirm this Jun?
Thanks

Yes.

I am have to say that this is a very difficult species even for most of us in the tropics, even the most seasoned bonsai practitioner lost branches and sometimes trees, and sometimes even the whole Pemphis garden ,,,matured and expensive ones.



Like this garden, which used to have thousand world class Pemphis acidula tree...mostly dead now.    We managed to rescue several dozens.



regards,
jun  

Wow! Where is that beautiful garden located? Is it open for public viewing?

i know you can lose a pemphis acidula branch from getting overwhelmed by mites that can stay undetected from unwary owner while sucking the tree branch dry. what is stopping others if one can grow p. acidula and not err?

thousands of p. acidula poached... greedy, greedy... i would take half a dozen if i have the buying power of this man.  

keylyn wrote:i know you can lose a pemphis acidula branch from getting overwhelmed by mites that can stay undetected from unwary owner while sucking the tree branch dry. what is stopping others if one can grow p. acidula and not err?

thousands of p. acidula poached... greedy, greedy... i would take half a dozen if i have the buying power of this man.  

It is not the mites. It is more on the wrong techniques. We are doing it the wrong way. The tree is nice for several years but slowly it is dying after 6 years.

The person who owned this garden, I believe is not greedy. He is in fact one of the nicest and the most honest man doing bonsai in the Philippines, He is one of the pioneer of Pemphis bonsai in the country. that is why he has that much collection, most of the trees that were lost in our remote islands went to foreign countries during the 80's and the early 90's.

regards,
jun  

https://ibonsaiclub.forumotion.com/t9553-pemphis-acidula-collected-5-months-ago
this is probably what you're implying.

fact is that removing thousands of well-established trees from the wild brews destruction. it's also greed that plied and prompted this man to his position.
greed seems doable-edged.

keylyn wrote:https://ibonsaiclub.forumotion.com/t9553-pemphis-acidula-collected-5-months-ago
this is probably what you're implying.

fact is that removing thousands of well-established trees from the wild brews destruction. it's also greed that plied and prompted this man to his position.
greed seems doable-edged.

You said the same to Jong in his Murraya thread. even though it is just couple of old murraya materials? but I don't see you doing the same comment to Japanese, Taiwanese, European materials which were gathered the same way.
BTW in that thread, murraya is just garden trees and not forest trees or critically endangered species...are you sure you are in the right forum?

I'll be happy to see you discussing or showing some trees.

regards,
jun   



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Keylyn,

I saw some pictures that you contributed to Walter Palls thread... they seems to be very old too? were they all yamadori? I am sure they all are.

Double standard on your part?

regards,
jun  

our people seem very explicit in their blunders.

i have a few small-mini yamadori poached you could count on two hands (mostly weedy coppices that can become invasive as alien plants and very few p. acidula). i never said i'm not a part of these blunders. if i rate myself from 1-10 as a good person with 10 being the highest, i'd give myself 2-3.

Your judgement on yourself on how bad you are is base on your own perception.  
if one thief stole a chicken and another thief stole the whole chicken farm..both of them are still considered thieves. and not anyone of them is in the position to lecture other thieves about immorality of stealing.

Just enjoy bonsai and stop judging other people that you do not know of.

jun wrote:if one thief stole a chicken and another thief stole the whole chicken farm..both of them are still considered thieves. and not anyone of them is in the position to lecture other thieves about immorality of stealing.

well said Jun...

after all, we are all thieves of one type or another...   

trouble is, most of don't even realize it     

kevin

nice work jun
  
awesome