Bonsai Meaning - Bonsai Nature | Ideas for Bonsai

The word bon sai often misspelled as bonzai or banzai is a japanese term which literally translated means planted in a container.

Bonsai meaning. Bonsai a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown. The term bonsai may be loosely used to reference the art of making miniature scale trees but actually it is more than an art form. Tray planting pronounced boɰ sai listen is a japanese art form which utilizes cultivation techniques to produce in containers small trees that mimic the shape and scale of full size trees. The art or hobby of developing and growing such a plant or plants.

This art form is derived from an ancient chinese horticultural practice part of which was then redeveloped under the influence of japanese zen buddhism. A potted plant such as a tree dwarfed as by pruning and trained to an artistic shape also. Includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms ming tree a dwarfed evergreen conifer or shrub shaped to have flat topped asymmetrical branches and grown in a container.