All of the West Indian / Barbados Cherry [ Malpighia e ] come from the yard, planted by birds, as do the Sageretia t and Fukien teas, do we count
those as yamadori ?
By the way some of these Malpighia e, shrubs, weep as well, and have rounded or pointed leaves.
Here is a small West Indian Cherry.
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Anthony
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Thanks for posting both trees!
The first, is this the tree that you believe is a new form of Buttonwood?
The second is a Barbados Cherry, correct?
If so do you have any pics with fruit? So folks could see what they look like?
Also, one thing I have found about crossing roots as this tree has, is if one can perhaps bring others like some of those to the left over in front and to follow the angle of the front crossing root, it seems to help with the design...
In otherwards, if one cannot hide, cannot remove... add to it, and make it look as if it is an intentional design characteristic.
If able, check out some of Min Lo's trees... he has alot of crazy exposed root trees. Where often because of being collected, you cannot remove... so the trick then is to try and design them so they are cohesive. Often you will need to separate and wire them just as one does branches.
If you are growing these trees from seeds, I would suggest trying to work these out as they develop. Will add to the design of the tree immensely!
As far as calling a collected tree from a landscape... some would argue that it is not a true yamadori. These folks don't live in heavily populated areas... they actually have wild to collect from. To me personally it does not matter, as long as it has character and age.