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rpa cv i non elongated leave ficus microcarpa cv i non for taxonomists who took broader views in naming species called the lumpers names like i non crassifolia etc are not needed for the overall picture and all these names are relegated to just ficus microcarpa for example berg and corner lumped them all into f microcarpa in their revisions of malanesia ficus posted in bonsai penjing 3 replies an unusual ficus bonsai style from taiwan posted on 2020 06 20 by hoechuah 1 huge massive trees with umbrella like canopies and neatly arranged pads are hallmarks of taiwan s ficus bonsai they are created and modeled after an old majestic ficus microcarpa in tainan s national cheng kung university campus f microcarpa at the national cheng kung university campus an award winning f microcarpa modeled after the national cheng kung university ficus height 87 cm by hisu yang over the last decade there have been increasing criticisms among some taiwanese artists that too many of their ficus bonsai look like each other prompting comment like if you have seen one you have seen a hundred the artist of the above award winning standard ficus mr hsiu yang 杨修 did something unusual he created two non traditional ficus bonsai planted in stainless steel tray size of tray is 6 8 foot long if i recall correctly another mr yang s creation note a cut wound filled with clear red resin he had a spot light illuminating that red resin when i saw these two ficus at the cheng mei cultural park 成美文化園 i was shocked i would not be surprised to see bonsai styled this way in china but in taiwan however these trees looked familiar and they appealed to me i could appreciate them because i have seen oddly shaped ficus just like these two growing in suburban parks street corners and village squares taiwan is densely populated and is very crowded although ficus are widely grown as landscape trees in subdivisions and small community parks as they grow their extended limbs eventually encroach nearby buildings fences etc they compete for space with human dwellings when these encroaching limbs were cut off since bonsai rules do not apply during tree trimming new branches grow at odd angles and finally into a form which i could only ascribed to a cohabitation between ficus and human competing for space a ficus i saw in lukang which has become too big and too close to a shop house it ended up a mushroom shape to many bonsai eyes they are ugly looking trees but are nonetheless alternative natural models for bonsai inspirations there is a chinese proverb which says there is beauty when ugliness is at its extreme and it might apply in this case here are some photos from taiwan streets and squares i downloaded from the internet with their respective sources an old ficus growing in the qing dynasty military governor s compound in kinman https kinmen travel image 10494 1024 768 old ficus in kinman island source http papilio0204 pixnet net album photo 138052177 a plaque not in this photo said it was planted in 1886 i thought these urban ficus inspired mr yang s creations but i was wrong i later found out he got his master degree from the mingdao university using the ficus in the stainless steel container as a project and his thesis was entitled a study of bonsai sculpture creative method and ficus microcarpa linn f example in his thesis mr yang discussed applying aesthetic principles to bonsai creations this ficus was created based on his buddhist believes of causality aerial roots were used to create a more organic tree without an obvious massive trunk and the whole creation process represented the three stages of past present and future in buddhism i do not understand the religious and philosophical meanings in this creation but i can relate to it because i have seen ficus growing in crowded urban areas there are a lot of intentional imperfections from partly peeled irregular aerial roots crisscross branches to unclosed large wounds called horse eyes throughout the bonsai they are very different from the japanese aesthetics of perfections anyway please enjoy detailed photos of these two unusual ficus bonsai ficus in stainless steel container multiple trunks created with aerial roots they are not fused together into massive trunk we see in most taiwan ficus bonsai fused irregular aerial roots as part of the organic trunks even the moss dressings were not neatly arranged like those in japanese bonsai exhibits large unclosed wounds horse eyes accentuate imperfections ficus with filled red resin a light inside a 5 gallon white plastic bucket was aimed directly at the resin to capture the tree goblin no massive nebari for this tree the cheng mei cultural park is a beautiful garden worth a visit if you go to taiwan posted in bonsai penjing ficus tagged bonsai ficus microcarpa taiwan 1 reply why do i repot a big ficus from a ceramic pot into a wooden box posted on 2020 05 15 by hoechuah 1 this ficus microcarpa was potted into a 24 round ceramic pot in 2015 by 2018 it needed repotting again but i procrastinated and did not do it in 2019 either i finally repotted it a few days ago but into a wooden box i jokingly said it was because i needed to reduce the overall weight that is true but there are more important horticultural reasons repotting it into a wooden box like rejuvenating the roots regaining the tree s health and working on the overgrown aerial roots and nebari potted into a 24 round ceramic pot may 2015 july 2018 ready for a repot but did not do it why use a wooden box to restore a bonsai s health it is a good idea to repot the tree into a slightly larger container preferably in a terra cotta pot a wooden box or a styrofoam box a slightly larger container provides more soil volume and extra rooms for the roots to rejuvenate increased surface areas between soil aggregates also allow the roots to breath better and grow more fibrous roots a cedar picket fence wooden box is an obvious choice since i cannot find a larger terra cotta pot or a big styrofoam box although the latter can protect the roots from over heating during our intense summer heat it is too glaring and stands out too much among the other trees unless i could paint it as for weight the 24 ceramic pot weighed 32 lb a comparable wooden box weighed about 5 lb i made a rough calculation this round pot with tapered wall has a volume of about 1 100 cubic inches about 18 l a square box holds almost twice the amount of soil your tree will thank you for the extra room while in recovery reworking overgrown or thickened roots aerial roots are great for improving the tree s nebari but they can become too big crisscrossed or grew in unintended direction if one is not diligent in controlling and incorporating them to the intended design these two photos show how the skinny grafted aerial roots grew in 4 years without repotting in between grafted aerial roots a b and c in 2015 and 2019 branch d was removed as it was sticking too much towards the front these grafted roots needed repositioning and incorporating into the nebari repositioning thicker roots using aluminum wires and tourniquet crossed roots repositioned once fused the top sections will be cut off exposing more of the nebari every time i repotted i raised and exposed the nebari by about 1 2 this time i raised it by about an inch exposing it gave the tree a larger nebari in each repot root base raised by about an inch shown by differences in tree bark colors another advantage of using a wooden box is i could easily put in a few screws on the box to attach guy wires to bring down branches posted in bonsai penjing ficus tagged ficus bonsai ficus microcarpa 1 reply e j h corner a ficus authority and my father in his suitcase posted on 2020 05 09 by hoechuah 1 i was searching online for ficus information came across figweb and saw this reference berg c c corner e j h 2005 moraceae ficus flora malesiana series i seed plants volume 17 part 2 national herbarium of the netherlands leiden holy moly was corner still alive in 2005 no he passed in 1996 the monograph was published posthumously as a ficus bonsai enthusiast i think there are two botanists whose names are worth knowing beside carolus linnaeus the younger who first described our ubiquitous ficus microcarpa these two botanists are c c berg he was the one who clarified the scientific name of willow leaf aka narrow leaf ficus described it in a paper with a very interesting title a new species of ficus moraceae of uncertain provenance his description was based on container plants bonsai pre bonsai from florida which became the type specimens so willow leaf ficus scientific name is officially ficus salicaria and salicaria means willow like in latin a round about way of calling it a willow like ficus many people still use the names f nerifolia f salicifolia but they are different species not the one we grow in bonsai cornelius kees christiaan berg 1934 2012 my ficus salicaria cc berg shohin bonsai continue reading posted in ficus tagged ficus 1 reply two root on wall ficus penjing how i create this new style posted on 2020 05 04 by hoechuah 6 this article was written by mr xuenian han 韩学年 a well known lingnan penjing master it was published in mr shaohong liu s 刘少红 the world of penjing 盆景世界 the most widely read online penjing magazine in china with over 135 000 subscribed readers both mr han and mr liu gave me permissions to translate this article and share it with english readers on how this new style was developed the fittest a root on wall ficus created by mr xuenian han 韩学年作品 适者 附壁榕 ficus microcarpa is a native tree species in the lingnan region as a fast growing tree and an ability to grow in a broad range of habitats it is widely cultivated in urban and rural areas in the pearl river delta especially in villages and towns along the river banyan trees with broad canopies provide shades and are popular with villagers where they could gather and cool themselves during the hot summer days ficus has large powerful tree trunk and wide spreading old gnarly roots since lingnan penjing practitioners often model their trees based on close range observations of how trees grow in nature thus the banyan style was born ficus is a popular species for lingnan penjing whether the material is field grown or collected key banyan features are artistically recreated and portrayed in a grow pot there are many excellent examples of banyan style penjing ficus growing on the old nanfeng kiln wall in foshan city guangdong 佛山市 南风古灶 古榕 ficus have aerial roots when these roots touch and anchor themselves onto the ground the tree would continue to grow outwards creating a forest like image even though it is just a single tree and this is the familiar banyan image since ficus is a strong survivor and adapts to myriads of environments there is another tree form from which these two root on wall penjing were based upon and i will discuss how i created them an old ficus growing along a river in shunde guandong 本地 顺德 一河边古榕 continue reading posted in bonsai penjing ficus tagged ficus bonsai penjing 6 replies ficus tree house bonsai posted on 2020 04 27 by hoechuah 10 huge tree roots clinging onto this ancient ta phrom temple ruin in cambodia is an iconic image they are not ficus but silk cotton aka kapok ceiba pentadra tree roots tomb raider was filmed at the ta phrom temple waiting for angelina jolie to come out strangler figs ficus tinctoria spp gibbosa thank you kasu bonsai for correcting the subspecies name do claim ta phrom however they look different with distinctive mesh like aerial root networks ficus grows rapidly in the tropic it does not take very long for it to completely engulf an abandoned building let me take you to the anping tree house in tainan taiwan it was a warehouse built in 1867 by the tait company a british trading company the japanese later took over the building and used it for salt trading after the second world war ended in 1945 the taiwanese continued to use it for some years and the building was abandoned birds dropped some banyan seeds onto this abandoned building in about 70 80 years the old tait company warehouse became known as the anping tree house completely engulfed by banyan tree trunks and aerial roots transformed from an abandoned warehouse into a popular tourist attraction in less than 100 years instead of razing down this condemned building the city mayor had the foresight of building steel supports and stairs it opened to the public in 2004 as a tourist attraction that s my wife soon in the red striped shirt one can now safely reach the roof top or the tree top whichever you want to call it it offers some wonderful views of aerial root formations over different sections of the building aerial roots grew parallel like carefully laid roof beams the corrugated roof probably served as a template for their growths this is not a typical big umbrella like canopy big trunk ficus we see in taiwan can some creative artists make a ficus tree house bonsai please posted in bonsai penjing ficus tagged ficus 10 replies international friendship kusamono with uwe harwardt and hermann wallenhaupt posted on 2020 04 20 by hoechuah 1 a post from my wife soon cheah a kusamono aficionado our facebook friend uwe harwardt from germany sent us a selfie video showing how he made a kusamono pot from a lump of clay into a pot with surface cracks at the end of the 20 minute video he asked whether we like this pot or not if so he would send it as our christmas present we were delighted when it arrived in time for the 2017 christmas uwe and i have been facebook friends for several years and we communicated often about kusamono every time i received uwe s pot i would put my heart into creating a kusamono that i felt we both would like and enjoy and shared photos with him on the outcomes this is one of the early pots i received from uwe i planted a false dandelion pyrrhopappus multicaulis a common weed from our backyard in it and asked our houston chinese bonsai society friend dr sun chueh gao 高珊爵 to write a chinese poem to accompany this kusamono my husband and i selected a verse from his poem which we thought best summarized how one could even enjoy such a simple ubiquitous weed as long as it appealed to our hearts and souls and pasted this verse on the photo like in a chinese painting this is the translation i created a mixed planting with uwe s christmas gift uwe and i love mixed kusamono plantings that reflect something we see in nature a blend of common flowers grasses and weeds as randomly and naturally as possible yet encompassing the three basic elements of kusamono aesthetics representing the relative heights between heaven earth and people 天 地 人 our joint work exhibited at the 2019 american bonsai society convention bonsai on the bayou held in houston texas the clay scratching monkey is a gift from out taiji class senior marcia yang photo taken by shau lin hon of slyworks photography we submitted this joint effort to the april...