Multiple Trunk Forms
A multi-trunked bonsai should have three or more odd-numbered trunks growing from the same root base. All the trunks should vary in height and accordingly girth.
Multiple trunks
There are styles that incorporate two or more plants in one pot; these include.
Multiple Trunk (Kabudachi)
Or Clump Style as it is sometimes called, the trunks seem to sprout out quite randomly from the root base or clump.
- Multiple Trunks - See Medium/deep rectangular, round or oval. Varies in accordance with trunk size
- Forest - Shallow oval or stone slab
- Landscape - Shallow oval, rectangular or stone slab, unglazed ...
It is a deciduous tree growing to 25 m (rarely to 30 m) high with a trunk up to 50 cm (rarely 150 cm) diameter, often with multiple trunks.
If a multiple trunk bonsai is envisaged, your first cut would be close under existing forking.
If a single trunk is the object, assess the amount of space desired between root and first branch. Then make the top cut at that point.
Normally Yews grow upright or in a spreading low form, and they may have single or multiple trunks. In a Japanese park I discovered a Yew that had a trunk diameter of four or five feet! ...
Group plantings or trees with multiple trunk forms should have an overall triangular outline, this triangular shape should not be symmetrical.
In some groups, a dominant tree can disturb the overall triangular shape.
Foliage, flowers and fruit ...
As Yuji Yoshimura explains: "In the case of multiple trunks and group plantings it should be noted that the Japanese have a strong dislike for even numbers.
SILVER MAPLE. Maples are naturally prone to multiple trunks to begin with but they are especially nice when they are trained properly.
Harley Stewart from zone 2, Canberra, Australia, says :
Beginner at bonsai.
He also feels that these multiple trunks are a response to a stressful environment (wind, drought, minimal soil and nutrients) and fewer shoots appear when grown in sufficient soil and water.
raft style - a bonsai style in which multiple trunks grow in a line from a connected base.
ramification - the development of a twigging structure by a series of divisions of branches into twigs and twiglets ...
Literati/abstract (many trees, especially junipers and pines);
Multiple trunks or multiple tree planting (especially ficus, ginkgo, elm, liquidamber, heavenly bamboo, maple, olive); ...
Multiple trunk cuts will also make nice soft, or sometimes radical bends in the trunk. This process is repeated, adding a few inches of trunk each time. Some taper will result from this, but not a lot.
 See also: Trunk, Bonsai, Species, Tree, Growing
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