What S Bonsai Mean

The art or hobby of developing and growing such a plant or plants.
What s bonsai mean. Bonsai is a japanese art form using miniature trees grown in containers. Tray planting pronounced boɰ sai listen is an east asian art form which utilizes cultivation techniques to produce in containers small trees that mimic the shape and scale of full size trees. The word bon sai often misspelled as bonzai or banzai is a japanese term which literally translated means planted in a container. 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.
Similar practices exist in other cultures including the chinese tradition of penjing from which the art originated and the miniature living landscapes of vietnamese hòn non bộ. A tree or shrub that has been dwarfed as by pruning the roots and pinching and is grown in a pot or other container and trained to produce a desired shape or effect. 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.