List of species used in bonsai.

The word bonsai simply means a "plant in a tray". Being defined as - "The art of growing dwarfed, ornamentally shaped trees or shrubs in small shallow pots or trays".

Outdoor Bonsai and Indoor Bonsai can make good houseplants although the former only for a few days at a time.

The tradition originated in Japan before spreading to many parts of the world, however Indoor Bonsais are a much newer concept and it's believed to have started in Germany before spreading outwards to many different countries.

This means because there are both Outdoor Bonsai and Indoor Bonsai the care and treatment of the plants is quite different.

1 . Look up the plant desired by its common name in the left hand column. There are separate entries for the various common names for a given species to help locate it quickly. 2. Click on the name to go to our database information about that plant. 3. To go to a particular Group, click on that Group's button either at the top or bottom of this page.

GROUP I HARDY, EASY TO GROW

GROUP II FAIRLY HARDY

GROUP III DIFFICULT AT TIMES

GROUP IV CHALLENGING, DIFFICULT TO GROW

PLANT ANALYSIS

COMMON NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

HARDINESS GROUP TYPE

Acacia, Sweet African Sumac Akebia, Japanese Aleppo Pine Apple, Crab Arborvitae, Oriental Arizona Ash Arizona Cypress Ash, Arizona Australian Bush Cherry Australian Tea Tree Azalea Bald Cypress Bamboo, Heavenly Banyan, Chinese Barbados Cherry Blue Atlas Cedar Blue Palo Verde Blue Spruce Bottle Tree Bottlebrush, Weeping Bougainvillea Boxwood, Japanese Brittlebush Buddhist Pine Burt Davyii Fig Buttonwood California Juniper California Pepper Tree Cape Honeysuckle Carob Cedar, Blue Atlas Chaste Tree Cherry, Australian Bush Cherry, Barbados Chinese Banyan Chinese Elm Chinese Sweet Plum Chinese Tallow Tree Cotoneaster Crab Apple Crape Myrtle Creosote Cypress, Arizona Cypress, Bald Desert Fern Desert Willow Dwarf Jade Dwarf Myrtle Dwarf Pomegranate	(Acacia farnesiana) (Rhus lancea) (Akebia quinata) ( Pinus halepensis) (Malus sp.) (Platycladus/Thuja orientalis) (Fraxinus velutina) (Cupressus arizonica glabra) (Fraxinus velutina) (Syzygium paniculatum) (Leptospermum scoparium) (Rhododendron sp.) (Taxodium distichum) (Nandina domestica) (Ficus microcarpa nitida) (Malpighia glabra) (Cedrus altantica 'Glauca') (Cercidium floridum) (Picea pungens) (Brachychiton populneus) (Callistemon viminalis) (Bougainvillea sp.) (Buxus microphylla japonica) (Encelia farinosa) (Podocarpus macrophyllus) (Ficus burt-davyii) (Conocarpus erectus) (Juniperus californica) (Schinus molle) (Tecomaria capensis) (Ceratonia siliqua) (Cedrus altantica 'Glauca') (Vitex agnus-castus) (Syzygium paniculatum) (Malpighia glabra) (Ficus microcarpa nitida) (Ulmus parvifolia) (Sageretia theezens) (Sapium sebiferum) (Cotoneaster sp.) (Malus sp.) (Lagerstroemia indica) (Larrea tridentata) (Cupressus arizonica glabra) (Taxodium distichum) (Lysiloma thornberi) (Chilopsis linearis) (Portulacaria afra) (Myrtus communis 'Compacta') (Punica granatum 'Nana')	II I I II III II II II II III IV IV II III I III IV II IV II II I III II III I III III II IIIII II IV II III III I I I I IV III II III II II II II I I II
Ebony, Texas Eldarica Pine Elephant's Food Elm, Chinese Elm, Japanese Gray-Bark Eucalyptus English Ivy Euonymus, Evergreen European Grape Evergreen Euonymus Fairy Duster Feather Bush Fig, Burt Davyii Fig, Indian Laurel Fig, Narrow-leaf Fig, Willow-leaf Fig, Weeping Firethorn Five-Needle Pine Flowering Pear Fukien Tea Gardenia Ginkgo Goldwater Pine Grape, European Greasewood Gum Tree Hackberry, Reticulated or Western Hawaiian Elf Schefflera Hawthorne, Indian Heather, Mexican Heavenly Bamboo Holly, Yaupon Honeysuckle, Cape Hornbeam Huisache Indian Hawthorne Italian Stone Pine Ivy, English Jacaranda Jade Tree Jade, Dwarf Japanese Akebia Japanese Black Pine Japanese Boxwood Japanese Contorted Quince Japanese Flowering Plum Japanese Gray-Bark Elm Japanese Maple Japanese Privet Japanese White Pine Juniper, California Juniper, Procumben Juniper, Prostrate Juniper, San Jose Juniper, Shore Kumquat Lady Palm Lantana Lavender Starflower Liquidamber Magnolia Maidenhair Tree Manzanita Maple, Japanese Maple, Trident Melaleuca, Pink Mesquite Mexican Heather Mimosa Mugho Pine Mulberry, White Myrtle, Crape Myrtle, Dwarf	(Pithecolobium flexicuale) (Pinus eldarica) (Portulacaria afra) (Ulmus parvifolia) (Zelkova serrata) (Eucalyptus sp.) (Hedera helix) (Euonymus japonica) (Vitis vinifera) (Euonymus japonica) (Calliandra eriophylla) (Lysiloma thornberi) (Ficus burt-davyii) (Ficus microcarpa nitida) (Ficus nerifolia) (Ficus nerifolia) (Ficus benjamina) (Pyracantha sp.) (Pinus parviflora) (Pyrus calleryana) (Ehretia microphylla) (Gardenia augusta) (Ginkgo biloba) (Pinus eldarica) (Vitis vinifera) (Larrea tridentata) (Eucalyptus sp.) (Celtis reticulata) (Schefflera arboricola) (Raphiolepis indica) (Cuphea hyssopifolia) (Nandina domestica) (Ilex vomitoria) (Tecomaria capensis) (Carpinus sp.) (Acacia farnesiana) (Raphiolepis indica) (Pinus pinea) (Hedera helix) (Jacaranda mimosifolia) (Crassula arborescens) (Portulacaria afra) (Akebia quinata) (Pinus thunbergii) (Buxus microphylla japonica) (Chaenomeles lagenaria) (Prunus mume) (Zelkova serrata) (Acer palmatum) (Ligustrum japonicum) (Pinus parviflora) (Juniperus californica) (Juniperus procumbens 'Nana') (Juniperus prostrata 'Foemina') (Juniperus squamata) (Juniperus conferta) (Fortunella sp.) (Rhapis excelsa) (Lantana montevidensis) (Grewia occidentalis) (Liquidamber sp.) (Magnolia sp.) (Ginkgo biloba) (Arcotostaphylos sp.) (Acer palmatum) (Acer buergeranum) (Melaleuca nesophila) (Prosopis sp.) (Cuphea hyssopifolia) (Albizia julibrissin) (Pinus mugo) (Morus alba) (Lagerstroemia indica) (Myrtus communis 'Compacta')	II III I I III IV IV II II II IV II I I I I I IV IV II III III II III II III IV II II III II III II III III II III IV IV III IV I I III III II IV III IV II IV III II II II II I III I I III III II IV IV III II II II II IV II II I
Narrow-leaf Fig Natal Plum Norfolk Island Pine Oak Oak, Silk Olive, Fruitless Olive, Texas Palm, Lady or Rhapis Palm, Sago Palo Verde, Blue Pear, Flowering Pepper Tree, California Pine, Aleppo Pine, Buddhist Pine, Eldarica Pine, Five-Needle Pine, Goldwater Pine, Italian Stone Pine, Japanese Black Pine, Japanese White Pine, Mugho Pine, Norfolk Island Pine, Yew Pink Melaleuca Pistachio Pittosporum Plum, Chinese Sweet Plum, Japanese Flowering Plum, Natal Pomegranate, Dwarf Privet, Japanese or Wax-Leaf Procumben Juniper Prostrate Juniper Purple-leaf Plum Pyracantha Quince, Japanese Contorted Reticulated Hackberry Rhapis Palm Rosemary Sago Palm Salt Cedar San Jose Juniper Schefflera, Hawaiian Elf Sedum Serissa Shore Juniper Silk Oak Silk Tree Silver Berry Snow Rose Spruce, Blue St. John’s Bread Starflower, Lavender Sumac, African Sweet Acacia Sweet Gum	(Ficus nerifolia) (Carissa macrocarpa) (Araucaria heterophylla) (Quercus sp.) (Grevillea robusta) (Olea europaea) (Cordia boissieri) (Rhapis excelsa) (Cycas revoluta) (Cercidium floridum) (Pyrus calleryana) (Schinus molle) (Pinus halepensis) (Podocarpus macrophyllus) (Pinus eldarica) (Pinus parviflora) (Pinus eldarica) (Pinus pinea) (Pinus thunbergii) (Pinus parviflora) (Pinus mugo) (Araucaria heterophylla) (Podocarpus macrophyllus) (Melaleuca nesophila) (Pistache sp.) (Pittosporum tobira) (Segeretia theezens) (Prunus mume) (Carissa macrocarpa) (Punica granatum 'Nana') (Ligustrum japonicum) (Juniperus procumbens 'Nana') (Juniperus prostrata 'Foemina') (Prunus cerasifera 'Atropurpurea') (Pyracantha sp.) (Chaenomeles lagenaria) (Celtis reticulata) (Rhapis excelsa) (Rosmarinus officinalis) (Cycas revoluta) (Tamarix chinensis) (Juniperus squamata) (Schefflera arboricola) (Sedum sp.) (Serissa foetida) (Juniperus conferta) (Grevillea robusta) (Albizia julibrissin) (Eleagnus sp.) (Serissa foetida) (Picea pungens) (Ceratonia siliqua) (Grewia occidentalis) (Rhus lancea) (Acacia farnesiana) (Liquidamber sp.)	I II II III II I II III I II II II II III III IV III IV III IV IV II III II III II I IV II II II II II III IV II II III III I III II II I III II II II II III IV II I I II III
Tallow Tree, Chinese Tamarisk Tea Tree, Australian Texas Ebony Texas Olive Texas Ranger or Texas Sage Trichodiadema Trident Maple Viburnum Vitex Wax-Leaf Privet Weeping Bottlebrush Weeping Fig Western Hackberry White Mulberry Willow-leaf Fig Willow, Desert Wintersweet Wisteria Yaupon Holly Yew Pine Zelkova	(Sapium sebiferum) (Tamarix chinensis) (Leptospermum scoparium) (Pithecolobium flexicuale) (Cordia boissieri) (Leucophyllum frutescens) (Trichodiadema sp.) (Acer buergeranum) (Viburnum sp.) (Vitex agnus-castus) (Ligustrum japonicum) (Callistemon viminalis) (Ficus benjamina) (Celtis reticulata) (Morus alba) (Ficus nerifolia) (Chilopsis linearis) (Chimonanthus praecox) (Wisteria sp.) (Ilex vomitoria) (Podocarpus macrophyllus) (Zelkova serrata)

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