Help on styling! Nursery 10+ year old Conifer / Pine?

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Help on styling! Nursery 10+ year old Conifer / Pine?

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Hi Folks,
Picked up this old boy from a local native nursery the other day for cheap (they dont just do natives) but it looks like some sort of pine/conifer, ID would be fantastic, the owner said a guy swapped him for some things many years ago and said its 10+ years old.

Ive been looking at it for hours, and its killing me :) I'd love to get some feedback on what the best style would be to shape the tree, obviously a format upright would probably be best best, or some sort of windswept look with possibility of exposed peeled bark on the other.. got a nice little bit of exposed root too, needs some good tlc.

I'm relatively new to bonsai, a few years, just this one ive been stuck on, got abit excited for the price / look / age and decided to buy it, any help would be appreciated !
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wow sorry, just realised the photos were on there side :s
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I don't grow them, but looks like a Picea.
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Looks like a Norway Spruce that has been grown under very, very heavy shade going by the sparse elongation of the growth.

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Re: Help on styling! Nursery 10+ year old Conifer / Pine?

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pbx wrote:wow sorry, just realised the photos were on there side :s
edit the exif data to remove the rotation field, or just take pics on mobile device in landscape only.

looks like Picea of some sort to me

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