The one on the left is of several individuals fused together:
The dish is Japanese. My father bought it a little over 20 years ago.
The stones are cheap Chinese-imported stones. I think it is called yingstone.
The roots are not clasped onto the stones, I would think the stones can be
replaced with no damanges to the roots.
The temple is from Bali, Fiji or Sri Lanka. I am not certain.
(History has it that, Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian Crown Prince, became
disillusion with the burdens of livings, so he went away, and sat under a
ficus religiosa tree to meditate. His philosophy was later became Buddhism
throughout Asia. That is why ficus religiosa is a common feature in Buddist
temples in countries such as Sri Lanka etc...)
The measurements:
- Box length: 47 cm.
Pot width: 27 cm.
Pot height: 4.5 cm.
Height of the highest tree: 35 cm.
Height of the second highest tree: 25 cm.
Trunk diameter of the biggest (fused) tree: 15 cm.
Diameter at the layering point: 4.5 cm.
in the last 10 years (as on 10/May/2008 -- when I took the photos.) I think
this is why the root ball is so high. The roots just keep lifting the structure
up.
It was a bit unkempt in the photos. But the branches are rather lanky, so there
are rooms to move.
Recently it has been repotted into a slightly bigger dish, of oval shape. I do
not like that dish at all. I think the one in the photos suites it just fine.
