Bonsai

Bonsai (盆栽, "tray gardening", in Japanese) is the art of growing trees and plants, kept small by being grown in a pot and by the use of skilled pruning, formed to create an aesthetic shape and the illusion of age, although many bonsai trees are quite old and simply show their age in miniature form. The Chinese art of penjing is very similar to and is the precursor of the Japanese art of bonsai.

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Sketches of trees grown in pots, apparently used for decorative purposes, occur in Egyptian tombs, dated over 4,000 years old. Subsequently, caravans were known to transport trees in containers of various kinds throughout Asia. The trees were sources of chemicals used medicinally by healers in the caravans and places visited along the way.

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Bonsai related Images and Photos (experimental)

Bonsai I	Bonsai Poets Tree	Bonsai Kitty Plush	Bonsai Immortality Tree
Contemporary Pink Bonsai	Japanese Black Pine Bonsai Tree Pinus Thunbergii