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    A little mallsai Ficus....

    In the garage with the tubers?
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    If you like fungi

    There are several,the pick your own Liberty caps will bring nausea and laughing sickness,the Cubensis sold until a few years ago as a grow your own would bring on those symptoms and visual disturbance with eyes open or closed. Local Amanita would do nothing until the dried red skin was smoked...
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    Damned reading glasses !!

    Wear two pairs?
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    A little mallsai Ficus....

    Tubers are more for Potatoes.
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    How Does one Become a Bonsai Authority?

    One must select using the "Shows Promise" criteria,if at some later stage the promise proves to be illusory then this is all well and good as you remain true to yourself.
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    Is this material worth it?

    All exhortations aside,i would buy this Pine as it will live wheras your more expensive purchases will die.
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    The guess that tree thread

    Is it one of those wretched rocky mountain shrubs?
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    The guess that tree thread

    It's a Pooh stick,innit.
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    The guess that tree thread

    Catha Edulis,Eugenia Myrtifoliar?
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    CA Juniper 1st styling

    This page has evocative imagery of heathland and if you look carefully you can see the heather festooned with something or other. http://isjefeil.com/tag/heath-land/ Erica Arborea as a species is the source of briar for the pipes. One could say you have a sweet briar,but i'm not so sure until...
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    CA Juniper 1st styling

    Hmm,i would probably use traditional blackthorn for any cudgel I would need. This shillelagh you have fashioned shows a degree of promise but it's sparse foliage hints at the heather of the heathland.
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    Growing Seed to Bonsai

    The girth of the bole is important,especially in later life. http://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/content/measuringgirth/
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    Where to cut my 5 needle??

    Do they develop 'snow knees' in the confined beer coolers?
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    Is this material worth it?

    http://treenotes.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/identifying-pines.html Look for pitch on the trunk.
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    Is this material worth it?

    Needles in threes from the fascicle,Red Pine.
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