Its desert tolerance and appearance make it a good bonsai candidate. A small slow growing tree with smooth bark and purple tinged leaves and purple flowers. Pithecellobium A very popular ornamental bonsai plant with small spines and dense yellow, fragrant flowers when in bloom . A unique tree with a leaf shape unlike any other. A beautiful tree for the yard or garden.
Leaves have many medicinal values as well.
These giant trees can grow up to 325 feet tall in the wild, but have been tamed for use as bonsai. Bark is reddish brown and fibrous. A beautiful and hardy dogwood from Japan that is covered with pink blossoms in the earliest parts of Spring. Often used to create beautiful bonsai. A new and very different type of pine that makes a beautiful lawn tree reaching 60 feet or more with unique thin green cones or it can even be trained as a bonsai.