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What are the prices of Bonsai plants?
They can often Buy quite cheap bonsais in garden centers and DIY stores, but are of low or medium quality and cannot be compared to the most expensive Bonsai varieties. So what makes the difference and what is important in the most expensive bonsais? The price amount depends mainly on the following factors:
Age
The older and more mature a bonsai, the greater its value. The most expensive bonsais of all time They have many years old and have been raised and cultivated in their shell for several generations.
Shape
The art of creating a high quality bonsai also consists of getting a thick trunk that mixes perfectly with young branches. This takes time and cannot be achieved in a few years.
Cheap bonsais are grown from small cuttings in a few years to develop a thick trunk. Next, it is pruned radically and branches of filigree are formed in the cut. However, with this method, the transition or cut will be visible, which reduces the quality of the tree.
The goal of the bonsai is create an image as realistic as possible of a natural tree large. The most expensive bonsai species can have only a few centimeters high or grow up to two meters.
Bonsai species
The variety of the tree can also influence when fixing The most expensive bonsai price. After all, some species are more difficult to mold than others and, therefore, they can be more valuable. Whether conifers, deciduous or perennial, basically all trees can be grown in miniature artistic editions. They can be maintained both inside and outside, depending on the desired bonsai and the tree species that adapts to the concrete climate.
The 6 most expensive bonsais in the world
- The most expensive bonsai of all time: In the seventies and eighties, the enthusiasm for the Bonsai was great in Japan. In the early 1980s, an unknown buyer acquired a juniper bonsai for about two million dollars.
- It is also one of the most expensive bonsais in the world: In the International Bonsais Convention of Takamatsu, in Japan, a centenary pine for 1.3 million dollars was sold.
- The most expensive bonsai without a specific price in the museum: A juniper of almost 900 years old is considered a masterpiece of the art of the Bonsai and can be seen in the Shunkka-in Tokyo Bonsai Museum (Japan). Its value is estimated at several hundred thousand dollars.
- A 900 -year -old bonsai pine and an 800 -year -old Bonsai juniper They can reach a price of 880 thousand and 985 thousand dollars when they are sold, according to the retailer on-line Luxury Trees, which makes them one of the most expensive bonsais.
Article originally published in AD Germany.
Translated and adapted by Fernanda Toral.