Bonsai Containers or Pots

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A variety of informal bonsai containers or bonsai pots may house the bonsai during its development, and even trees that have been formally planted in a bonsai pot may be returned to growing boxes from time to time.

Bonsai Styles

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

Bonsai Size Classifications

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Japanese bonsai exhibitions and catalogs frequently refer to the size of individual bonsai specimens by assigning them to size classes (see table below).