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Formal upright 1

Black pine, chokkan: eleven years to a straight trunk

Informal upright 1

Trident maple, moyogi: the first structural wiring

Slanting 1

Crabapple, shakan: getting fruit to hold past November

Cascade 1

Trident maple in full cascade: growing against gravity

Semi-cascade 1

Semi-cascade Chinese elm: the angle that decides the style

Literati 1

Itoigawa juniper, bunjin: carving shari without losing the tree

Windswept 1

Windswept black pine: training a tree to lean into one wind

Double trunk 1

Double-trunk larch: making two trunks read as one tree

Clump 1

Clump-style Japanese maple: five trunks from one root

Exposed root 1

Dwarf pomegranate, neagari: exposing roots 8 mm at a time

Root over rock 1

Scots pine on rock: twelve years for roots to take hold

Forest planting 1

Zelkova forest planting: spacing five trunks on a 42 cm slab

株立ちStyle form

Clump株立ち

Definition

Three or more trunks diverging from the same stump below the soil line, so the base reads as one tree.

Tree records in this style form

Clump-style Japanese maple: five trunks from one root Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) · 28 Sep 2026

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