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BUTTRESSING This is also known as root-flare, where the base of the tree flares outwards giving the feeling of great age and solidity.
CAMBIUM Green growth tissue directly below the bark, its increase adds to the girth of roots and stems.
Also known as "buttressing", nebari is the visible spread of roots above the growing medium at the base of a bonsai. Nebari helps a bonsai seem grounded and well-anchored and helps a tree look old, mature, and more akin to a full-sized tree.[1] ...
Anchoring the tree in the ground will give you more taper, buttressing, and a better nebari, due to the stress fractures that will form from the wind waving the whip.
The first was that the tree had attractive buttressing. The second thing revealed was that the promised sandy soil was, in fact, clay - clinging, cloying clay.
 See also: Tree, Trunk, Buttress, Bonsai, Growing
  
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