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Natural Bonsai This little Pacific Silver Fir found itself a perfect bonsai pot to germinate in. It's developed quite a lovely shape, even without human trimming. Abies amabilis,Geotagged,Pacific silver fir,Spring,United States Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Natural Bonsai

This little Pacific Silver Fir found itself a perfect bonsai pot to germinate in. It's developed quite a lovely shape, even without human trimming.

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  1. Beautiful! Does it actually grow on rock? Posted 10 years ago
    1. They can get established in cracks and little dishes in the rock. There's just enough soil/water/nutrients in there to maintain a tree, but certainly not a full sized one. I'm sure that the originators of bonsai saw this happen in the wild and figured out that they could do it intentionally with a small pot. That boulder was probably about 3 feet or so off of the soil - the tree was about eye level to me and had a nice depression where the rock had chipped and cracked in several planes forming a natural pot. The parent tree in the background is probably 20-30 feet tall at least. Posted 10 years ago, modified 10 years ago

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''Abies amabilis'', commonly known as the Pacific silver fir, is a fir native to the Pacific Northwest of North America, occurring in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range from the extreme southeast of Alaska, through western British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, to the extreme northwest of California. It is also commonly referred to as the white fir, red fir, lovely fir, amabilis fir, Cascades fir, or silver fir. It grows at altitudes of sea level to 1,500 metres in the north of the.. more

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Uploaded May 4, 2015. Captured May 3, 2015 13:12 in Olympic National Forest, 13780 North Lake Cushman Road, Hoodsport, WA 98548, USA.
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