Bonsai

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English: : 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.

Français : Le bonsaï (盆栽, parfois orthographié, bonzaï), est un arbre dans un pot. C'est l'art de miniaturiser des arbres ou des plantes en taillant et ligaturant leurs branches et leurs feuilles

[edit] Well-known bonsai

John Naka's Goshin

Hiroshima Survivor, nearly 400 years old

Daimyo Oak, given to Anson Burlingame in the 1860s

[edit] Styles

Masculine informal upright style cedar in masculine pot	Feminine informal upright style maple in feminine pot	Formal upright style Baldcypress	Broom style Japanese Zelkova
Slant style California Juniper	Root-over-rock style Trident Maple	Literati style Japanese Black Pine	Semi-cascade style Mugo Pine
Cascade style Virginia Creeper	Twin-trunk style Japanese White Pine	Multi-trunk style Atlas Cedar	Raft style Japanese Garden Juniper
Spruce forest planting	Growing-in-a-rock style Chinese Elm	Exposed roots style Trident Maple	Windswept style Key Lime
Bankan (twisted) style Japanese Black Pine

[edit] Illustrations

Formal upright style	Informal upright style	Broom style	Slant style
Root-over-rock style	Literati style	Semi-cascade style	Cascade style
Twin-trunk style	Raft style	Forest style	Growing-in-a-rock style
Exposed roots style	Windswept style	Bankan (twisted) style