Growing Bridges

[BonsaiBeginnings]

These bridges are grown by ficus elastica by generations of families. I am new to bonsai but I think it would be an awesome project to replicated these structures, although some may not consider it traditional.

Either way, I figured some of you would find this very interesting.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Interesting. I found a bunch of bridge/raft style bonsai in a post on some other forum recently. Pretty cool stuff. I imagine using a ficus you could come up with some neat penjing similar to that captured in the image you presented.

 

[Poink88]

There was a thread about this before...

https://www.google.com/search?q=nat...s.net%2F2012%2F03%2Fatlas-obscura%2F;1000;750

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/root-bridges-cherrapungee

http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2009/10/21/bridge-to-nature-amazing-indian-living-root-bridges/