Literati/ Bunjin American Beech

[Tbrshou]

What is the provenance of this tree? I feel like I've seen it before.

Absolutely no clue I have a folder of screenshots of trees from the internet i dream of owning.

 

[Gabler]

I did want to continue the literati discussion, but I did not want to muck up this thread, so I started a new thread:

Thread 'Can you give me a precise, accurate definition for the term literati bonsai?'

Dec 26, 2025

Literati is a difficult subject to pin down. The most common definition I see is that it has to "feel like" a literati tree. This reminds me of the late Justice Potter Stewart and his infamously vague definition of pornography:

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["literati bonsai"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it ...

The way I see it, the term "literati bonsai" is a bit like the Trinity. We can parrot the phrase, "one God...

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