Bonsai Ficus Ginseng

Bonsai ginseng is an important part of the bonsai culture, one of the most famous Japanese arts, and it symbolizes one of the best-known Asian traditions.

Bonsai art appeared over a millennium ago in the Chinese Empire, and at the time it was known as penzai. It was figuring bonsaï (Ficus retusa)soon adapted and redefined by the Japanese and then spread all over the South-East Asian regions.

Translated literally as a tree in a tray, the bonsai culture includes different species of miniature trees.

Although ginseng is a plant with a long tradition in the Asian cultures, ginseng bonsai appeared around 250 years ago in Taiwan and Malaysia when ficus ginseng was discovered. Ginseng bonsai, together will all the other bonsai species, spread rapidly through all Asia, became popular in North America and then all over the world.

Bonsai art, and ginseng bonsai implicitly, it is representative of the Japanese people’s way of thinking and their view of the world. It is not only a horticultural practice, but it also inspires harmony, equability, and simplicity.