Spent my birthday at the arboretum and exhibit in DC with the wife. So many beautiful trees, thought I'd see more larch, but this mega beast was insanely humbling. In training for ~400 years. #goals 
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In training since the 1600s...
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Omono
Can you see the number on the cell phone tour plaque?
Paradox
Imperial Masterpiece
Spent my birthday at the arboretum and exhibit in DC with the wife. So many beautiful trees, thought I'd see more larch, but this mega beast was insanely humbling. In training for ~400 years. #goals
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This is an amazing Japanese white pine.
The picture doesn't do it justice. It is HUGE for a bonsai.
This tree survived Hiroshima because it was protected by a wall and was a gift from Japan to the United States for its 200th birthday.
Centuries-old bonsai that survived atomic bomb gets honored 70 years later
At 390 years old, the Japanese white pine was already notable as the oldest specimen in the bonsai collection at Washington, D.C.'s National Arboretum.
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Repotting the World-Famous Yamaki Pine — National Bonsai Foundation
National Bonsai & Penjing Museum and U.S. National Arboretum staff have repotted the Yamaki pine , one of the world’s most eminent and symbolically powerful bonsai. Almost 400 years old, the Japanese white pine has survived generations of travel and travesty, most famously the 1945 bombi
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Scorpius
Chumono
So that's the tree that survived the bomb. Crazy how much history that tree has seen.
Amazing, thanks for sharing!!This is an amazing Japanese white pine.
The picture doesn't do it justice. It is HUGE for a bonsai.
This tree survived Hiroshima because it was protected by a wall and was a gift from Japan to the United States for its 200th birthday.
Centuries-old bonsai that survived atomic bomb gets honored 70 years later
At 390 years old, the Japanese white pine was already notable as the oldest specimen in the bonsai collection at Washington, D.C.'s National Arboretum.
Repotting the World-Famous Yamaki Pine — National Bonsai Foundation
National Bonsai & Penjing Museum and U.S. National Arboretum staff have repotted the Yamaki pine , one of the world’s most eminent and symbolically powerful bonsai. Almost 400 years old, the Japanese white pine has survived generations of travel and travesty, most famously the 1945 bombi
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
The Yamaki Pine has developed well since it was imported to the U.S. at the arboretum--for the better. Images of it when it was imported back in '75--
Check this video at 11:40 or so and 21:38
Check this video at 11:40 or so and 21:38
leus
Yamadori
That video is *so* interesting.
I'm particularly drawn into the soil they are using (around 9:05), it looks suspiciously like regular dirt to me, or at least very small and powdery akadama. Surely matter for a new sustrate war, methinks >
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Not really. It's likely akadama or some other volcanic sourced soil. Very different than "regular dirt" More porous, lighter, more durable and inorganic...That video is *so* interesting.
I'm particularly drawn into the soil they are using (around 9:05), it looks suspiciously like regular dirt to me, or at least very small and powdery akadama. Surely matter for a new sustrate war, methinks >
BillsBayou
Chumono
In training for 400 years. Hmm... You would think it would be ready by now.
Mikecheck123
Omono
I love that video. I wonder what joke the guy tells at 11:57.
"that's some major wood amirite?" *laughter*
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
This is my favorite bonsai in the world!
Not just the story, but the look of it is something else altogether. So imposing, yet still relaxed.
Not just the story, but the look of it is something else altogether. So imposing, yet still relaxed.
