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Types of Bonsai Trees

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Types of Bonsai Trees

This lens is about the different types of Bonsai. This will include information about the different styles, sizes and plants that make up a bonsai.

Each of the types can make thousands of different variations of Bonzai.

Types of Bonsai Trees: Styles

When talking about Bonsai, style pertains to the way the plant is wired or trained to grow. The different styles are as follows:

- formal upright style
- informal upright style
- Slant-style
- Cascade-style
- Raft-style
- literati style
- group or forest style
- root-over-rock style
- broom style
- multi-trunk style
- growing-in-a-rock

The most common styles include: formal upright, slant, informal upright, cascade, semi-cascade, raft, literati, and group/forest.

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Types of Bonsai Trees: Sizes

According to Wikipedia, Bonsai is the art of aesthetic miniaturization of trees. There are five groups of sizes that Bonsai fall into. They are as follows.

Tiny 1" - 3"

Small 5" - 10"

Medium up to 16"

Medium to Large 16" to 24 "

Large up to 47"

Types of Bonsai Trees: Plants

Almost any tree and other plants can be trained to be a Bonsai. The following are the most popular kinds used to make beautiful Bonsai.

Maples
Cypress
Firs
Pines
Jumipers
Spruce
Ficus

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