Parent and child style cork bark Japanese black pine. Photo courtesy of the U.S. National Arboretum.
You can check out the cork bark bonsai above at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum. It is in a parent and child style configuration that has been in training since 1980, when two prunnings from another cork bark pine bonsai in the Museum’s collections were grafted to a Japanese black pine rootstock. The trees represent a mature parent tree in the wild that has given rise to a younger succession which has thrived under the larger tree’s protection, yet reaches toward the light to become its own presence in the woodland.
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Credit: Historical Tree Spotlight: A Cork Bark Collaboration, February 24, 2022
