Botany · Ch 10 — Economically Useful Plants & Entrepreneurial Botany
Entrepreneurial Botany
Entrepreneurial Botany
Entrepreneurial Botany is the study of how new businesses are built around plant resources, and equally of the practical process of starting such a business — an entrepreneur, by this definition, is simply someone with an idea who works to create a product or service people will buy, and who builds the organisation needed to sell it. For a Higher Secondary Botany student, this is presented as directly actionable: real opportunities exist to merge botanical knowledge and everyday skills into a business idea that can genuinely support a livelihood, and this final part of the chapter is designed to give students hands-on, practical training in a handful of such ventures. The sub-sections that follow walk through six concrete activities in turn — mushroom cultivation, Single Cell Protein production, seaweed liquid fertilizer, organic farming (including a home-made pesticide and bio-pest repellent), terrarium- …
Bonsai
Bonsai is a Japanese art form built around growing miniature trees in containers deliberately shaped and scaled to echo the form of full-size trees. A grower is expected to visualise the finished shape of the tree while still choosing both the plant species and the pot, since the eventual silhouette is planned from the very start rather than discovered along the way. The book names several recognised bonsai silhouette styles — Formal Upright, Informal Upright, Slant, Broom style, Cascade (where growth trails downward and outward, 'overflowing') and Semi Cascade — each defined by the angle and spread of the trunk and branches. The basic process of making a bonsai tree runs in three broad steps: a young sapling is dug up and its roots are cleaned and pruned; the pruned sapling is then positioned and planted into a prepared bonsai pot; and after this re-potting, the tree …
What this figure shows. A two-part illustration. The first part is a reference chart of named bonsai silhouette styles as listed in the text — Formal Upright, Informal Upright, Slant, Broom style (shown twice), Cascade (an overflowing, downward-trailing growth form) and Semi Cascade — each shown as a simple miniature-tree silhouette in a shallow pot so their differing trunk angles and branch spread can be compared. The second part is a three-step numbered sequence for making a bonsai: Step 1 shows a young sapling being dug/plucked out of the ground with its roots being cleaned and pruned; Step 2 shows the pruned sapling being positioned and planted into a shallow bonsai pot; Step 3 shows the newly re-potted tree left to recover in a semi-s …