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Found this pic while googling of what is said to be the worlds oldest Olive tree and its still producing Olves at the ripe old age of 3000 odd years.
That is one crazzzzy Trunk!

Regards Mick

WOW! That is just amazing- and beautiful! The trunk is amazing in its own right as well as the fact it's still producing olives!

Just think, if only trees could talk! (I'd stay and chat awhile )

Chipper5

How cool is that,
now if only I had a big enough pot and a few friends for a yamadori

Love the trunk Mick

banksiaman wrote:How cool is that,
now if only I had a big enough pot and a few friends for a yamadori

Hmmm olives are fairly good at surviving... it's right time of year... (sort of)

lets go

old fella's still throwing up suckers too.

Don't know what you lot are getting all excited about. It is a rubbish tree because it has reverse taper. That makes it rubbish because the rules say so. It looks terrible, and I think it is a waste of yamadori time and effort.

Andrew Legg wrote:Don't know what you lot are getting all excited about. It is a rubbish tree because it has reverse taper. That makes it rubbish because the rules say so. It looks terrible, and I think it is a waste of yamadori time and effort.

olive.jpg

There are no rules Andrew, bonsai is an art form, therefore they are guidelines. Yes you need to understand them before you know how to bend or break them. But I think the point of the post was to share the fact that it is an ancient tree, that even after all these years is still producing olives.

I think I would ignore the reverse taper if I had a tree that old in my collection, just like David Joyce has a tree with the main branch coming from the inside of a curve. If we all stuck to the "rules" as you put it, we would all have trees that were almost identical. Art mimicking nature is how I think it should be approached, and if nature produces reverse taper, then so be it

Luke308 wrote:

Andrew Legg wrote:Don't know what you lot are getting all excited about. It is a rubbish tree because it has reverse taper. That makes it rubbish because the rules say so. It looks terrible, and I think it is a waste of yamadori time and effort.

olive.jpg

There are no rules Andrew, bonsai is an art form, therefore they are guidelines. Yes you need to understand them before you know how to bend or break them. But I think the point of the post was to share the fact that it is an ancient tree, that even after all these years is still producing olives.

I think I would ignore the reverse taper if I had a tree that old in my collection, just like David Joyce has a tree with the main branch coming from the inside of a curve. If we all stuck to the "rules" as you put it, we would all have trees that were almost identical. Art mimicking nature is how I think it should be approached, and if nature produces reverse taper, then so be it

My sentiments exactly Luke308 appreciate the tree for what it is If I owned a miniture version of this tree and somebody said its not true bonsai because it has reverse tapper i would slap them I posted the pic to enjoy a 3000 year old tree that has stood the test of time ......... not every tree in the world needs to be judged but can just be enjoyed.

I think Andrew's comment was pretty tongue in cheek fella's. Makro got it. Thanks for posting this glorious tree.

Amazing trunk.... Hmmm how to replicate? ... And yes there was just a hint of sarcasm in the previous post!

Bodhi.

Rules shmools.

An amazing tree !!! It is said that Jesus and his deciples stopped at this tree. Assuming that this is the same tree which resides in Israel. It looks like it.
For what its worth Reverse taper does not matter here, for it is a Broom.

chipper5 wrote: Just think, if only trees could talk! (I'd stay and chat awhile )

Chipper5

Lucas