The Oldest Known Bonsai

Bonsai trees are not a house plant, but a miniature tree, which requires equal opportunities for growth as the normal tree growth.

 
     Austrian village Seeboden

With these words you will be accepted in a bonsai museum in the Austrian village Seeboden by owner, lover of all Japanese. You'll learn that the Japanese bonsai are rarely placed in an apartment; they may do so only on special occasions, when he devoted a special place of honor.
Bonsai trees
The word bonsai, it is used incorrectly in the West for all the miniature grown plants (Western have came up with the bonsai room, but in the opinion of the professionals do not deserve this name), comes from the Japanese pronunciation of Chinese terms pensai and in literal translation means tree in a tray (container).
Oldest Bonsai in the bonsai museum in Seeboden should be 300 years old.
Short period of time created the impression of trees, which grow through the seasons, which the wind by the device gets wet rain and snow and sun.

Bonsai: Priceless family richness
The Japanese bonsai are considered to family heritage and to be transmitted from generation to generation. The value of these trees is so invaluable.
Upbringing of trees and other plants in containers is already a source from the time of the early Egyptian culture, as evidenced image records in 4000 BC; on which the image of trees grown in containers carved from stone. Plants in containers are also cultivated in India, mainly for healing purposes.
The art of breeding bonsai the most flowered in Japan during the period Tokugava when training plants to regulate the park and surrounding living rooms (most are planted azaleas and maple trees) has become a popular leisure activity of the rich.
Austrian village Seeboden

Up to 800-year-old bonsai
The oldest known bonsai should be those that are part of the garden and restaurant Hapo-en in Tokyo, Japan. Bonsai in the Tokyo garden are aged between 400 and 800 years.