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Top; Views of the Mugo pine after it was collected in the Alps.
Bottom right; The pine was collected by Piero Masiero, founder of the Museum Fujisato, and commercial collector of bonsai.
BCI: What is the story of how this tree came to Museo Fujisato?
MASSIMO BANDERA: Collected in the Alps in 2007,
it was grown in top vigor for three years before starting the first interventions. It was brought immediately to Museo Fujisato and acquired as
a piece with great future potential. The pine was collected by Piero Masiero, founder of the Museum Fujisato, and commercial collector of bonsai.
You have named this tree il Nibelungo, why?
With the new stylistic choice of informal upright, this bonsai shows considerable strength and dynamism, and for this to be all Western, we decided to give it a name from Northern European tradition that expresses great strength and power and is also
a suitable name for a northern species such as Pinus
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