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A magnificent Pomegranate (Punica granatum), styled by John Naka and in training since 1963,
appears to be ancient with or without foliage.
Other Cypress bonsai in the museum’s North American collections includes
John Naka’s first bonsai, a Montezuma Cypress (Taxodium mucronatum). He
chose it because of its natural “formal upright” shape, which the tree naturally
has before its crown spreads, and because its foliage can change with the seasons
depending on its geographical location. The Montezuma Cypress is Mexico’s
national tree and one in Oaxaca is said to be more than a thousand years old. It
can grow to a height of more than 100 feet when it is not being trained as a
bonsai.
A forest planting of Bald-cypress and Pond-cypress trees (Taxodium
distichum var. distichum and Taxodium distichum var. inbricarium) was created

by Jim Fritchey and Dick Wild in 1988. They collected trees in southwest
Florida, planting them on a natural rock slab weighing one ton. Unless they are
side by side, the trees are difficult to tell apart. In nature, Bald-cypresses grow
taller and in a wider range than Pond-cypresses, extending beyond the American
southeast and Gulf Coast where both thrive west to Texas and north into Illinois
and Indiana. Pond-cypresses are named for where they are found, on the edges
of lakes and in other shallow waters. Bald-cypresses can live in deeper standing