Great base, strong taper and nice balanced open branching. An altogether excellent Japanese white pine, and it’s from a seedling no less! As you may know, most quality Japanese white pine bonsai have been grafted onto Black pine stock. But not this one. It was grown from seed and is, as you can see, quite impressive. It was just wired (in this photo) by Michael Hagedorn (Crataegus Bonsai.) It belongs to a client of Micheal’s.