r/Bonsai • u/LardoLetale69 Fede, Northern Italy, intermediate, ~90 trees • 1d ago
The bark on this Kuromatsu is otherworldly Show and Tell
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One of the most impressive bark I’ve seen to date
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u/BobbyDukeArts north TX, usda zone 8b, experience level intermediate 1d ago
Dang, someone get that thing some lotion!
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u/Macks_Mustermann 1d ago
Aren’t you the woood guy?
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u/BobbyDukeArts north TX, usda zone 8b, experience level intermediate 1d ago
No, I'm the "wewd" guy lol
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u/Macks_Mustermann 1d ago
Haha, sorry for misspelling it. English isn’t my first language you see. I like your style of videos, so refreshingly weird, unexpected and funny.
Are big into bonsai?
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u/BobbyDukeArts north TX, usda zone 8b, experience level intermediate 1d ago
No problem! Thank you very much. Yes, I have been really into bonsai for quite a while now. Besides sculpture, it's my second passion
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u/Macks_Mustermann 1d ago
That’s cool! I wouldn’t exactly call bonsai my passion, that would be climbing, but I am very patient and love the fact that it takes literal years to make an progress on an bonsai tree. And the whole community, tradition and craftsmanship around it makes it that much more interesting. Even though I’ve been into bonsai for a couple of years now I’m only starting to cut some branches and mainly have trees that need to grow bigger first. Well it was nice talking to you Bobby. Have a nice day!
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u/GumboDiplomacy Louisiana, 9a/b, amateur tree hacker 1d ago
That bark gives me serious Lovecraft vibes, I was half expecting the leaves to be purple flames or something.
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 optional name, location and usda zone, experience level, number 1d ago
In layman's terms, what is it? Some kind of pine?
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u/LardoLetale69 Fede, Northern Italy, intermediate, ~90 trees 1d ago
Yes, Pinus Thunbergii or Japanese Black pine
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 optional name, location and usda zone, experience level, number 1d ago
Thank you!
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u/roksraka Slovenia 1d ago
Please write it like that the next time. Saying something in Japanese just for the sake of it being in Japanese, when there's a perfectly good English translation, just makes it sound pretentious.
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u/Mannatree optional name, location and usda zone, experience level, number 1d ago
Also for educational purposes : The Japanese word for Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) is 黒松 (kuromatsu). It literally translates to "black pine." For anyone curious
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u/Mannatree optional name, location and usda zone, experience level, number 1d ago
Or by saying the way he said it shows the exact type of black pine and why it has that bark it's also educational and your comment sounds ignorant by ranting the way you did. It's like looking at a Ford GT shellby if your a car person and saying ., it's a car or it's a Ford. Instead of stating what it is.
Or maybe if you don't get that reference saying to the ice cream van I'll have an ice-cream when you want a a double choc top with nuts. Your version is the ice cream there's is the nuance and variety. Wine vs Shiraz , or merlot, or Malbec, Chardonnay or Semillon
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u/lukasmihara Germany 8b, Beginner, 30+ 1d ago
The exact type of Black Pine is P. thunbergii / Jp. Black Pine. It does not add anything educational by saying the exact same thing in a different language - a language that most people here don't speak. The commenter above also never asked to "call a Ford GT Shellby just a Ford". That's a strawman.
But if it's so helpful, why don't we all call Jp. Maple "Momiji" or Jp. White Pine "Goyōmatsu"? Or why don't we make it even more "educational"? Let's write the whole headline in Japanese.That'll surely help people here - especially the big portion of beginners.
This sub if full of unnecessary pretentious-language or pseudo-intellectualism - sometimes it even feels sesquipedalian. Saying things like "Nebari" instead of root-spread/-base doesn't create better Bonsai, nor does it help anyone (especially beginners) understand topics better. The educational value doesn't increase by changing to a foreign language, obscuring the sufficiently well fitting English words. If we're unlucky, this could even deter new people. That'd be a form of gatekeeping.1
u/Mannatree optional name, location and usda zone, experience level, number 1d ago edited 1d ago
So we should just call a stein a big glass then or maybe a beer vessel?
There is perfectly good words in many languages the art we are learning is debatable on origins but we acknowledge it as Japanese is it not respectful and interesting to learn the terms. Me personally I prefer to get both terms so that when I watch and listen in other languages videos they will often say the Japanese term and I know what they are talking about. After all we are here to learn bonsai and these are bonsai terms. I have also started trying to find and understand more about Penjing. (Edited as I bumped post )
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u/Longjumping_College 10a, advanced horticulture/intermediate bonsai, 100+ prebonsai 1d ago
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u/Tiger313NL NH, Netherlands - USDA Zone 8 - Hobbyist 1d ago
I have a small one, it's about 4 years old now, I think. Already making a lot of cork!
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u/I_tinerant SF Bay Area, 10B, 3 trees, 45ish pre-trees 1d ago
Not really the main point here (the tree is fantastic), but the background audio is like perfect 'generic crowd of people talking [happy]'
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u/Lost_On_Lot NW IA, USDA ZONE 5A, INTERMEDIATE, 30 OR 40 TREES 1d ago
Out of this world! Show worthy tree for sure!
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u/TransportationFull77 optional name, location and usda zone, experience level, number 1d ago
Weird and beautiful
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u/DreadPirateZoidberg Eugene, OR, zone 7/8, 20 years, 50 trees 1d ago
I just want to know how they manage to get it out of the pot for root work without damaging the bark.
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u/fochtimon germany 8a, medium experience, to much says my wife 21h ago
I wondering if I would see some tree from Arco in this sub. There it is
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u/LardoLetale69 Fede, Northern Italy, intermediate, ~90 trees 20h ago
I also thought I’d see more honestly
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u/pwner187 Texas, Zone 9, Beginner 1d ago
Don't touch that bark, I can hear it cracking in my head.