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The Bonsai in the picture is a 3.5 mt (10 feet) Ficus retusa linn that's over 1000 years old. It is also known as the Crespi Ficus, because it is exhibited at the entrance of the Crespi Bonsai Museum in Milan, Italy. The owner of this museum, Luigi Crespi, fought for decades for this unique Bonsai tree, and finally got ownership in 1986.

This tree was carefully crafted by the Chinese masters, and once it got to Italy it was properly taken care of by a man called Shotaro Kawahara, a Bonsai master from Japan who carefully pruned the tree to maintain its shape.

Though there were negotiations between China and Italy about the ownership of this Ficus Bonsai tree, Italy managed to keep its prized Bonsai beauty!

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[–] TheLobotomist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Streetdog@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And on internet trees is pot.

[–] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Took me a second. If I was still a smoker, it may have taken me a minute.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Confucius say: 'man who stands on toilet is high on pot'

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's a rather large pot.