Paul Collard helping bend a reluctant trunk.
Linda, John Grande, Kathy Gutheil, ?, John Tran and Paul Collard in front. John's banyan Ficus microcarpa on right.
One interesting and powerful trick is that dieback will usually proceed until it hits a preformed bud, or the collar of an existing branch, or the connective tissue of an existing branch.
For the best results, do not cut all the way into the trunk; leave the "callous collar," which is the slight bulge around the base of the branch.
That mature trees, both bonsai and those on the front lawn, develop what is known as a 'collar' around the base of the largest branches.
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Pruning should be done with a concave cutter, a special bonsai tool for making sharp cuts without collars (stubs).
2cm long. The trees flower olny after they are 25 years old. The ovules on the female tree rise from a collar at the base and grow at the tips of straight stalks that bear two or ovules, each 2.5-3.5 cm.
Speakers bring it up, and all those knowing heads nod, and I can feel the eyes glancing across at me as my neck tries to draw my head down below the level of my collar. Oh, the shame! I just want to die. Then I wake up.
 See also: Growing, Style, Form, Plant, Trunk
  
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