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These 13 types of bonsai trees transform ordinary plants into living sculptures. Explore this ancient art form's unique fusion of nature and creativity.
Fig tree, common fig [6]: 46–47 Ficus microcarpa: Chinese Banyan Fig [6]: 44–45 Ficus neriifolia: Willow-leaved Fig Ficus rubiginosa: Port Jackson Fig Fortunella hindsii: Dwarf orange [6]: 48–49 Fraxinus: Ash Fuchsia, including Fuchsia fulgens hybrids Fuchsia [6]: 54–55 Gardenia, including Gardenia jasminoides: Gardenia [6]: 50–51
Bonsai are sometimes marketed or promoted as house plants, but few of the traditional bonsai species can thrive or even survive inside a typical house. Most bonsai are grown outdoors. The best guideline to identifying a suitable growing environment for a bonsai is its native hardiness. If the bonsai grower can closely replicate the full year's ...
Japan also hosts several annual bonsai competitions where trees compete for awards in different categories. The most prestigious bonsai competition for amateur-owned trees, although most trees are prepared for display by professionals, is the Kokufu-ten, held every year in the month of February in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. The Kokufu ...
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Bougainvillea is also a very attractive genus for Bonsai enthusiasts, due to their ease of training and their radiant flowering during the spring. [8] They can be kept as indoor houseplants in temperate regions and kept small by bonsai techniques. B. × buttiana is a garden hybrid of B. glabra and B. peruviana. It has produced numerous garden ...
Growing 1–20 metres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 65 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) tall, it is a very variable coniferous evergreen tree or shrub. A variety of Juniperus chinensis referred to as "Shimpaku" is one of the top species used in the Japanese art of bonsai. Among the multiple cultivars of Shimpaku found in Japan, the most desirable due to its tight, fine ...
Pinus thunbergii (syn: Pinus thunbergiana), the black pine, [2] Japanese black pine, [3] or Japanese pine, [4] is a pine tree native to coastal areas of Japan (Kyūshū, Shikoku and Honshū) and South Korea. [5] It is called gomsol (곰솔) in Korean, hēisōng (黑松) in Chinese, and kuromatsu (黒松) in Japanese.
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