WHY THE BONSÁIS NEVER GROW UP?

Bonsai is a word of Japanese origin which literally means bon = ‘Tray’ ups = ‘cultivar’) and consists of the art of growing trees and plants, reducing its size through different techniques.

Because they care so that their branches and leaves grow according to the work of the person who cultivates. To keep them in a pot small and pedalos in specific periods, the tree adapts its size.

It is possible to create a bonsai from almost any kind of tree or woody shrub perennial that produce branches real and have it remain with reduced dimensions by confinement in a pot and pruning its front and roots.

All plants possess meristems – tissues responsible for the growth – are composed of cells that form the leaves, stems, and roots. The meristems detected the conditions to which it is exposed the bonsai: normally restricted to a small number of land, minerals, and water in a pot compact, in addition to a pruning constant.

In this climate, the meristems produce fewer cells for the formation of leaves, stems, and roots, suitable for a number of resources received. When maturing, all structures look like a tree miniature.

The art of the bonsai originated in China some two thousand years, as an object of worship for the monks of the Tao. For them it was the symbol of eternity, the tree represented a bridge between the divine and the human, the heavens, and the earth.