N: Neagari - Japanese term for exposed root or octopus style
nebari - Japanese term for the exposed root base of a tree
O: Overpotting - planting a bonsai in a container that is larger than necessary to maintain it.
A Dragon Bonsai (or Green Dragon) is an auspicious presence in the garden, the mystical Chinese dragon symbolises good fortune and prosperity. In this style the tree coils around itself like a Chinese dragon. The Octopus Style (Takozukuri) a ...
FICUS. In the "Waterberge" where I live you would always find the Ficus growing on the rocks. Sometimes even almost flat rock with its roots like a giant Octopus.
Jim Rieden from Silver Spring, US, says :
Practicing bonsai for over 10 years.
Sub-styles range from the Nejikan, in which the trunk makes only a partial turn to the Takzukuri, or Octopus.
salted salmon, pheasant, steamed and dried abalone, dried and grilled octopus), while fresh fish, shellfish and fowl were sliced raw in vinegar sauce or grilled (ex. carp, sea bream, salmon, trout, pheasant).
Bonsai Tree Styles: Octopus - multi-trunk variant with many twisted trunks - usually pines
Bonsai Tree Styles: Split Trunk - trunk has been literally split to form separate elements ...
The tree coils around itself like a Chinese dragon The secondary styles for this one include Nejikan, or partially twisted style where the trunk does not make a complete turn on itself, and the little seen Takzukuri Style, or Octopus, ...
 See also: Style, Plant, Tree, Bonsai, Trunk
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