MartyB
Yamadori
Yes I have to do at least 200+ km to find crown land where I could try to collect one. I have zero contacts where a landowner would give me permission locally to collect one either as they are few and far between. And I am trying to keep one alive before graduating to yamadori levelThe Montreal region is not especially swampy, but I'm always on the lookout.
But if you're willing to drive 15 hours or so, the Côte-Nord region is famous for its crazy larches: https://bonsaiquinn.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/the-north-shore-la-cote-nord/
Cosmos, I don’t know where you are in QC but Pepinière Jasmin, as well as having a extremely good collection of prebonsai material of various species, has a very large inventory currently of nursery-style potted larcinias and deciduas, from sharpie-marker diameter up starting at 19$ each. They have a few with lower branches that could probably survive into decent branching if the top is thinned.
Anyway I picked up a pre-bonsai larcinia today for 80$ that is already in substrate with decent movement and a good rootbase. So i keep it alive as-is till next spring is the plan. Hopefully my decidua survives as well but I am diversifying my chances of having a specimen next year