Trident Green Maple with Roots Over Rock Specimen Bonsai Tree

Maples are a traditional favorite for bonsai lovers all over the world. With their dynamic visual differences every season, it's always something new to look at with maples. Especially their famous colorful transitions as they shed their soft foliage during the fall months. They do that to get ready to hibernate for the winter since all maples are deciduous trees.

Trident Maples or Three-Toothed Maples are native to China, Korea and Japan. They are the most versatile type of maple to work with for any styles and all sizes of bonsai. It can develop fine web-like branch ramification and dense light green foliage that turns into spectacular shades of bright orange and red during the autumn. It's a strong growing tree that's tolerant to heavy pruning work, drier soil conditions and polluted air environments. The rock bases help give it a wilder look. All of the roots are naturally cling onto the rock with age.

Trident Maples are a hardier variety of maple that better tolerates hotter climates more so than your average maple bonsai tree. They have semi-drought resistance in case you forget to water them for a day or two when its warm outside. However, due to its soft thin leaves and small size to be enjoyed as bonsai, please be cautious and provide some shade to avoid any leaf burn throughout the year. When maples are kept small, they are much more sensitive to their environments than their large yard tree counterparts. Although they are more tolerant to urban pollution and salt if kepts within big city limits or nearby the ocean coastline.

For this specialty specimen style, we've utilized the Trident Maple's tough fiberous root system and placed the rootball higher up above the soil line by binding the roots on top of a medium sized rock. After many years of coaxing and training, the tree has now accepted the rock as an important foundation to continue to cling to as it beautifully ages. The addition of the rock gives the bonsai a more "raw nature" look to it; to mimic some of the challenging environments that natural maples would be forced to survive in the wild mountain forests in Asia.

Price: Product $300.00 + USPS Priority Mail Shipping & Handling $70.00 = $370.00 Total