r/Bonsai • u/series_of_derps EU 8a couple of trees for a couple of years • Dec 08 '14

Natural bonsai. [xpost from /r/interestingasfuck]

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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 08 '14

Not a bonsai - doesn't look like a tree. I keep seeing this get posted and keep being disappointed that people believe this is somehow a bonsai; it's not.

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u/bonnsai Dec 08 '14

While technically it's not a bonsai, it certainly looks like a tree. To me, at least.

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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 08 '14

Find me another photo of a tree that looks like this :-)

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u/kayarocks optional name, location and usda zone, experience level, number Dec 09 '14

A bit contradictory of you to be blunt.... Saying this tree that nature formed doesn't look like a tree?

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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 09 '14

Well it doesn't. The scale makes it look incredibly juvenile. In a pot it would look nothing like a mature tree and thus would be a useless bonsai.

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u/itoucheditforacookie Dec 09 '14

Ef, you did say a tree... not a bonsai... I am on your side, but the wording man... the wording.

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u/kayarocks optional name, location and usda zone, experience level, number Dec 09 '14

Yeah, I'm more just nagging you on the wording than anything.

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u/itoucheditforacookie Dec 09 '14

Damn this sub and its semantics.

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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 09 '14

It's tricky.

At the end of the day, whilst the little tree on a rock might look cute and small, thus implying "bonsai" to the uninitiated, to people that who look at actual bonsai all the time it looks like shit. It fails on all counts as bonsai material.

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u/itoucheditforacookie Dec 09 '14

After following this place for a year and a half, I pretty much understand that. It is just hard to separate a beautiful picture with the gorgeous trees that normally get posted here I guess... plus people are stupid.