Buttonwoods, Books & Bonsai Wire 11/11/16

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This powerfully compact Buttonwood belongs to Nacho Marin, as do all four Buttonwood bonsai shown here.

Continuing with yesterday’s Buttonwood theme, while we pack for our journey back to the real world…  all four trees shown belong to Nacho Marin and were featured on Bark in February, 2015.

With Buttonwoods it’s nature that does the real work. Humans find them, dig them, pot them and eliminate branches and other parts that distract from the natural beauty of the tree. But nature does the twisting, turning and scouring by sand and wind that results in such unusual shapes and magnificent deadwood.

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Nature's twisted handiwork.

Much of the shaping and scouring happens during hurricanes and tropical storms. I’ve even heard that Buttonwoods are sometimes violently uprooted and blown to new locations. When the storm settles they begin the process of reestablishing themselves. This could only happen in the tropics (see below) where humidity is high enough to keep the exposed roots from dying out.

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The tortured deadwood on the right was no doubt once a trunk.

Buttonwoods (Cornocapus erectus) are tropical trees that typically grow along coastlines. They are highly successful and have managed to spread throughout much of the tropical regions of the world: including southern Florida, the Caribbean, throughout the Central and South American coastal tropics, the Galapagos Islands, West Africa and Melanesia and Polynesia.

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Saving the best for last. All scrunched up and twisted at the bottom while soaring at the top. Nice pot too.

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