What is the most expensive bonsai in the world?

most expensive bonsai in the world

If you have ever walked into a store with bonsai you will have noticed that they are expensive. Much more if we talk about exclusive specimens that have been treated by professionals and that are put up for sale. But, Have you ever wondered which is the most expensive bonsai in the world?

If you are curious, just to know how much this would be worth, then here you will find the solution. Shall we tell you?

Why are bonsai so expensive?

Why are bonsai so expensive?

There is no doubt that bonsai are a real gem. Although the ones we can buy and see in stores are not close to "true bonsai", those that are worked from when they are small until they get exuberant, delicate, unusual shapes... over time, the truth is that it is quite a art.

Maybe you don't know that to have that bonsai that you buy in a store (Supermarket) between 5 and 10 years of daily and superficial cures must have passed to get that copy. It is one of many, because it is not well formed as a bonsai. But in the case of more specialized stores, you do find more representative shapes that require days, months and years of work to make this a real pride.

When creating a bonsai, you have to choose a good tree to modulate it over the months and years so that a suitable figure is obtained. Then, you have to prune it, wire it to guide the branches, clean it, cut its roots, transplant it several times to make the trunk thicker and maintain adequate watering.

To this we must add the use of specific tools, many of them handmade or created by the growers themselves that are as important as they are expensive. Very expensive.

This is why the price of a bonsai is so expensive. On the one hand, because of all the work behind it, with the possible failures because not all of them always come out ahead. But on the other hand, by the use of the tools that are needed.

To give you an idea, a moderately presentable bonsai must be at least 10 years old. And those would be young specimens with whom we would have to continue working.

how long does a bonsai last

Speaking of years, do you know how long a bonsai can last? Are there some who die earlier and others who can be up to 800 years old?

The truth is that If you take good care of a bonsai and cover all its needs, it is normal for it to live for at least 100 years. There are many others, especially in Japan, that are over 150 years old and are passed down from generation to generation.

How do you get that? One of the techniques applied to them is pruning roots and branches. That alone is already a specimen rejuvenation, in such a way that you help to “start over”. An example, imagine a tree whose lifespan in its original state is 25 years. By making bonsai and applying this technique alone, you double the years of life. And if you add other techniques to that, you would easily get to exceed those 50 years.

For this reason, if the years of life of a tree in its normal state are known, in a bonsai tree it can be achieved to double that amount, passing it as a legacy to the different relatives (as long as they also take good care of it).

Which bonsai are the oldest in the world

Which bonsai are the oldest in the world

Related to what we have just told you, wouldn't you like to know which are the oldest that are still preserved today? Well, we have investigated and we have found several specimens throughout the world that will impress you.

The first, and oldest in the world, has a whopping amount of more than 1000 years. It is considered the oldest bonsai in the world. The best of all? So you can see it in person. It is located in the Italian Bonsai Museum in Crespi.

Another of the oldest, also over 1000 years old, is a pine bonsai that is in the Mansei-en Bonsai Nursery. He's from the Kato family in Omiya, Japan, and he's quite the exemplary.

Another pine also has the label of oldest in the world since it is about 800 years old. Currently its owner is Master Kobayashi, who is one of the most famous and reputable bonsai professionals in the world, winning the Prime Minister award four times.

The next specimen is a complete survivor. And it is said that when the atomic bomb fell in 1945 that bonsai was there and survived both the impact and the heat and radiation that was generated. Today, this Japanese white pine is over 400 years old and was donated to the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington.

And, obviously, another of the miniature trees that is also ancient is the most expensive in the world. Here we present it to you.

What is the most expensive bonsai in the world

What is the most expensive bonsai in the world

Source: Shohin Bonsai

We wanted to leave the most expensive bonsai in the world for last because it well deserves its own section. However, you will be surprised because this one does not have the years that we have commented in others. But that they remain in 250 years, which are already many, everything must be said.

What specimen is it? a juniper You already know that these trees live a long time and are also very leafy and that, if they are worked well, incredible shapes can be achieved.

And that's what happened with this one.

Aesthetically, he is a "tree lord". Its trunk is huge and very, very wide, twisting on itself and creating a silhouette with its branches, also thick, and a lush greenery that combines with brown.

This bonsai went on sale in 1981 and at that time the buyer paid 2,5 million dollars to get hold of the copy.

We speak of a 250 year old bonsai. You can imagine that any of those that we have mentioned before, over a thousand or eight hundred years, would have a much higher price than what we have told you now and that it holds the record for the most expensive bonsai in the world.

What do you think now of bonsai? Do you think they can be a good investment if you take good care of it and leave a legacy of several million to your descendants? Tell us.


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