Chrysanthemum bonsai

'Chrysanthemum tray planting', pronunciationⓘ) is a Japanese art form using cultivation techniques to produce, in containers, chrysanthemum flowers that mimic the shape and scale of full size trees, called bonsai.

Bonsai cultivation and care requires techniques and tools that are specialized to support the growth and maintenance of the flowers in small containers.

There are several cultivated varieties of chrysanthemum that possess the ability to be trained into many of the traditional bonsai styles associated with woody trunked trees and shrubs.

But since chrysanthemum rarely grow to be old enough to have wood, deadwood bonsai techniques may also be used.

[2] The chrysanthemum bonsai artist must complete all design work in fewer than ten months.