Oldest Bonsai And Ficus Ginseng

Just how old is the oldest ficus ginseng bonsai and for that matter the oldest bonsai living today?  The notion of the oldest bonsai in the world evokes all sorts of fanciful ideas with some answers more fiction than fact.  One such story of a    3,600 year old bonsai discovered in a   tomb on a golden pedestal referred to in David Easterbrook’s publication of 1985, Bonsai Down Under      is perhaps one of my favourites. This closely followed by the ever so slightly more believable 1,500 year old bonsai uncovered by archaeologists in the ruins of a Tibetan monastery (itself 3,000 years old). The story goes that the bonsai survived off a few rays of …

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