Bonsai Meaning

The art of growing such a plant.

Bonsai meaning. Tray planting pronounced 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. Bonsai is basically a japanese word but has chinese roots. It is derived from the chinese word pun sai which literally means growing trees in a pot or tray. Thus a plant in a tray is bonsai.

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. Similar practices exist in other cultures including the chinese tradition of penzai or penjing from which the art originated and the miniature living landscapes of vietnamese hòn. This art form is derived from an ancient chinese horticultural practice part of which was then redeveloped under the influence of japanese zen buddhism.

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 word bonsai can be broken into its two roots that is bon which means a tray or a shallow container and sai meaning plant.