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A nugget by

the side of

the road

I would like to show the development of a Bucida spi-
nosa from my personal collection, a tree which after a few
years, has begun to show some potential. A potential that
at first was difficult to see in the original stump.
1
I found this tree next to the road, where it had been
chopped down to a short stump, and I noticed it had a
large mistletoe plant incrusted in one of the branches. I
removed the parasitic plant and took the stump home.
There, it was planted and grown in pure sea sand as seen
in figure 1.
After three years, the tree was ready to be worked on.
Nice growth covered the tree and very interesting masses
of branches looked like they would be useful for the de-
sign. Figure 2.
I cut down some of the branches and placed the tree in
a pot that would allow the tree to stand out, however,
to style the tree at this time could result in the death of
several branches or even the main tree. Figures 3 and 3a.

BUCIDA SPINOSA 2

3 and 3a