an artisan hand-coded sketch of a custom tree layout. this very likely could be shaped into a proper custom tree layout that would be useful for the deeper tree structures found in wild-caught data.
based on a bespoke felt-marker-on-graph-paper design, reproduced below.
further research may lead to an bl.ock that builds on these examples:
Pedigree Tree “Elbow” Dendrogram Variable Offset Animated Links Tree Layout Orientations