Saturday 10 October 2015

Will fruit/seed of a bonsai yield another bonsai plant/tree?


With practice one can create a bonsai; no complicated modification of the DNA in a high-end lab required. The bonsai will even beget bonsai fruit.


What I am curious about is - if such bonsai fruit is planted again, will it give rise to a normal, or a bonsai tree?



Answer



No, seed from a bonsai tree will not automatically produce another bonsai tree. Bonsai are dwarfed due to restriction of root growth in their small containers - unless the offspring are also grown in environmentally dwarfing conditions, they will tend to grow normally.



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