Buttonwood Bonsai Tree
(conocarpus erectus)

The Buttonwood is a small tree with gray/brown fissured bark and has light green leathery leaves with wavy margins. The flowers are small and greenish to purplish in color. The fruit is red-brown, globular, button-like cones 1/2" in diameter. Some of the greatest bonsai in the world are those collected specimens which reflect a struggle for survival against the overwhelming odds of the ravages of nature. The appreciation of any collected bonsai specimen is enhanced by the realization of this struggle for survival. Our collected Florida Buttonwood, Conocarpus Erectus, is unique in its struggle in that it has had to survive not only frost, floods and violent winds, but storm tides and man too! Good indoor bonsai tree. Likes high humidity.