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Kokedama

LC control no.sh2017000349
Topical headingKokedama
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See alsoBonsai
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Gardens, Miniature
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Moss gardening
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Found inWork cat: Kagawa, Takaaki (Botanist). Kokedama, 2015: page 3 (in Japan, a style of casual bonsai called kokedama; these bonsai stand without pots and have herbs, grasses, or small shrubs, including common house plants; a popular, lower-maintenance style of bonsai; the prototype of kokedama is the form of bonsai called ne-arai, translated into 'washed roots') page 5 (kokedama can be translated into 'moss ball'; classified as easier, quicker version of ne-arai; a planted ball of soil covered with live moss; according to some sources, Isao Umiji, a horticulturist, invented kokedama in the late 1990s)
Brooklyn Botanic Garden website, February 16, 2017 (Kokedama (Japanese for "moss ball") is a style of potting up plants in a ball of moss and displaying them in a dish or suspended in the air))