> Even the name “Scion” reverses the syllables of “Bonsai” and drops the “B”! This might be a coincidence, or might not.

huh

Reminds me of Glenn Beck’s tirades on TV in front of a blackboard where he’d stitch together new tinfoil conspiracies in real time.

“The meanings overlap too. In horticulture a scion is the cutting grafted onto a rootstock, and grafting is a standard bonsai technique, used for example to add branches to pines and junipers. So two gardening words line up in sound and in subject.”- Claude

Lol