Bonsai tree

A very unusual tree. My first thought was to remove that strange first branch way down low (if you hold your hand over it, you see a remarkable bonsai with it’s powerful twisted trunk, beautiful living veins, luscious foliage and so forth). But is it that strange first branch that really distinguishes this tree?

A facebook problem

All the trees in this post appear in a facebook photo album by Hock Lye Yap (Malaysia). It’s not clear to me that the tree’s are Hock’s. He does have a bonsai in Budi Sulistyo’s Tropical Bonsai Gallery, so we can assume he is a bonsai artist (it’s still an assumption, he could be a collector). Still, because attribution isn’t facebook’s strong point, I’m left with a question mark.

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Great tree, great pot. This tree reminds me of some of the Taiwanese bonsai we’ve featured. It would be nice to know what the caption says.

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Also from Hock’s photo album.

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This tree looks familiar. Has it already appeared in this blog? That’s not a rhetorical question, I really don’t know (and don’t want to take the time right now to try to track it down).

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