Close up of miniature on a bonsai tree at an outdoor exhibition in one of the public gardens in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Bonsai is the art of aesthetic miniaturization of trees by growing them in containers. Originated in Chinese penjing. The Chinese first miniaturized container-grown trees in Penjing around AD 200 The art form may have been derived from the practice of transporting medicinal plants in containers by healers. Its early focus was on the display of stylistic trunks in the shape of animals and mystic was not long before it spread across the world

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Size: 3415px × 5360px
Location: Vietnam, Southeast, Asia, Asian, Indochina, Hanoi
Photo credit: © Bert de Ruiter / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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