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Bonsai: Art of Making Small Trees

This document discusses the art of bonsai, including common styles like broom, formal upright, informal upright, cascade, and windswept. It provides examples of some of the oldest bonsai trees, including a cypress tree that is over 150 years old, another cypress tree that is over 275 years old, a pine tree over 400 years old, a five needle pine tree over 500 years old that is a national treasure of Japan, and a ficus bonsai tree that is over 1,000 years old and considered the oldest bonsai tree in the world.

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Bonsai: Art of Making Small Trees

This document discusses the art of bonsai, including common styles like broom, formal upright, informal upright, cascade, and windswept. It provides examples of some of the oldest bonsai trees, including a cypress tree that is over 150 years old, another cypress tree that is over 275 years old, a pine tree over 400 years old, a five needle pine tree over 500 years old that is a national treasure of Japan, and a ficus bonsai tree that is over 1,000 years old and considered the oldest bonsai tree in the world.

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BONSAI

Art of making small trees


STYLES
BROOM
Suitable for deciduous trees
FORMAL UPRIGHT
• Most common style of Bonsai
• Often found in nature
INFORMAL
UPRIGHT
• Common in both nature
and in the art of Bonsai.
• The trunk grows upright
roughly in the shape of a
letter ‘S’ and at every turn
branching occurs
CASCADE
• Cascade Bonsai are planted in tall pots
WINDSWEPT
• The branches as well as the
trunk grow to one side as if
the wind has been blowing
the tree constantly in one
direction.
OLDEST BONSAI
Cypress Tree Bonsai
• More than 150 years old
• Informal Upright style
Cypress Tree Bonsai
• More than 275 years old
• Multi-trunk Formal Upright Style
Pine Tree
Bonsai
• More than
400 years old
• Formal
Upright style
Five Needle
Pine Bonsai
• More than
500 years old
• National
treasure of
Japan
• Formal
Upright style
Ficus Bonsai
Tree
More than 1000 years old
Oldest Bonsai tree in the
world
THANK YOU

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