of 2 Japanese characters or word phrases, "bon" & "sai." "Bon" is the pot, tray or container; the "sai" is the tree or potted planting. The original word Bonsai comes from the Chinese word "P'en Tsai" which sounds similar to bonsai and has nearly the same meaning. It couldn’t...
Round leave variety be called by its original name ‘crassifolia’ or ‘Hou Ye Rong’ which has the same meaning in Chinese but would be more difficult to call or remember by non Chinese speakers.The full name isFicus microcarpavar. ‘crassifolia’. Rounder-leaveFicus microcarpavar. ‘crassifol...
The wordbonsaicomes frombon, meaning tray or pot, andsai, meaning tree. Literally, therefore, the word should mean potted tree. However, there are more to it. What Is Bonsai: An Art and Science Bonsai is the art and science of dwarfing and shaping a tree or shrub and growing it as a...
Paused to muse On tender workings Of each Bonsai.Green man into white bands broken, Broken the broad back, branches, benches, All down into banded earth alike, He strode, a moving coil, amid impossible light, white arms, Green hands under branches turning Clouded growth into clear meaning....
Being that I also learned it in the southern latitudes of my country, they pronounced the last part, arbi’cola. Now, they’ve changed it, and it’s just an unpronounceable and easy to forget name: “Heptapleurum”. Hepta- meaning seven, and pluerum-meaning side. Seven leaflets on ...