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Choosing suitable trees 53

Assessing trees for bonsai
Always examine a tree from every angle. There are nebari, and the lower trunk movement: these factors
several things that you can correct on a bonsai, but take a long time—or major surgery—to change. The
a number of elements that are more difficult to fix. end of a branch can be manipulated with wire, but
When selecting a tree, focus on branch position, the the point it comes out of the trunk cannot be altered.

BAD GOOD

Good separation
between major
branches

No problems
Lower trunk Lower trunk
movement is a with nebari movement
Strong root that little too angular appears less
has grown out contrived
of the surface

BAD GOOD

All branches
have started
to ramify

Majority of Only one small
branches come branch coming
Large scars on from one node; from inside curve
lower trunk this could cause
undesirable
inverse taper—
when the trunk
widens at a node
where multiple
branches have
developed