Here's an unusual tree for your enjoyment. Or, for your criticism if you feel the profusion of small foliage pads (floating clouds) is unnatural. Personally I don't have a problem with it. It's rich and full of energy, with all those intriguing little pieces that hang together so well. The kind of tree you could look at for a long time and still see some feature that you missed. It belongs to Hsiu Yang, one of Taiwan's many great bonsai artists. It's obviously a Juniper, but no species is given.
Just one tree today. I borrowed the photo above from a post we did in September, 2012 and then chopped it up for closer looks.
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Trunk. Apologies for the fuzz
The right side. The one little branch is low enough (just below the bottom of the pot) to be considered a full cascade, though because the it's just one small feature in a tree with most of energy flowing upward, I don't think anyone would ever think of this tree as full cascade.
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