Fall Color of "Shi" - my 4 trunk Japanese Maple

[Brian Underwood]

Here "shi" is

 

[Smoke]

Nice, you damned near missed it!

 

[GrimLore]

Nice! Is there a photo showing the natural leaf curl of the Acer palmatum 'Shishigashira' ? Curious if they flatten going into dormancy or? Pretty though and thank you for sharing

Grimmy

 

[Vin]

Very Nice! You'll have to post a photo once the leaves drop so we can see more of that shari on the right trunk.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Very Nice! You'll have to post a photo once the leaves drop so we can see more of that shari on the right trunk.

Yup! That's something I want to see naked! Please do an update when it occurs.

 

[j evans]

Nice, let's see more!

 

[Lazylightningny]

Wow. I'd love to see a close up of that trunk clump.

 

[Brian Underwood]

Grimmy, this one is just a plain old Japanese Maple. Shishigashira have MUCH smaller leaves that are pretty much always curled. It's named Shi because it has four trunks (shi is 4 in Japanese).

The shari is actually the old tree in the middle that died long ago, and all other trunks grow out of it.

Here is the original thread two years ago; http://bonsainut.com/index.php?threads/4-trunk-japanese-maple-clump-shi-death.10101/

I'll take some more pictures as soon as the leaves drop

 

[JudyB]

Looking great Bri! Nice to see this one again. Would like to see more of your trees posted with updates...

 

[Giga]

Wow very nice, love to see it out of leaf. I love knarly old trees like this!

 

[Brian Underwood]

Well, the leaves are gone and she's quite naked...

 

[Brian Underwood]

Always fun to see what it looked like on first styling compared to now. So many more branches!

 

[JudyB]

Cool Brian, really cool!

 

[MACH5]

Good work Brian. Great and rather unconventional clump.

 

[Brian Underwood]

Thanks guys! I seriously need to treat that deadwood though. There's a lot less of it than 2 years ago...