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Pondeosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)

It's so unsusual to find yamadori Ponderosa pines with fat stumpy trunks instead of the familiar literati types, so this piece of material was irresistable. I bought it the minute I spotted it at New England Bonsai Gardens in 2004. It actually has two "fronts" but I prefer this one because it reveals the contorted main branch.

The needles will become short if fertilizer and water are kept to a bare minimum, but this tree isn't quite ready for that yet - it needs more buds. The needles were cut for the photograph.

Pot: Tononame, 1992
Photo: November 2007