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Identification

If you’re growing a bonsai from seed or cutting, or someone gives you one as a gift, you’ll need to identify the species so you can look after it properly. We’ll show you how.

Species Guide

Bonsai identification is essential so that you can take proper care of your miniature landscape. You might receive one as a gift or decide to propagate a tree by branch, grafting, or seed. How will you know how much light or water it needs daily, or whether to prune it in winter or summer?

In this section, we’ll post about the different identification techniques available for bonsais and trees in general. We might also delve into different species as a helping hand.

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How to Identify a Tree by Its Leaves Trees are abundant gifts of nature and also some of the most taken-for-granted. You can see them in various shapes and sizes, ...
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How to Identify Pine Trees Few things in nature are more beautiful than a pine tree forest on the mountainside. Add a lake or river, and you have the perfect ...
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The Beauty of the Japanese Maple Leaf Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun, is known for its maple trees. The landscape is adorned with gorgeous red, yellow, and orange ...
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How To Identify A Japanese Maple? Japanese maple can be planted as a small tree or large shrubs and grow up to 15 to 25 feet tall. The branches are ...
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How to Identify a Chinese Elm Identifying the bonsai you have is essential for knowing how to care for it. Often you’ll know what your bonsai is since it’s self-propagated ...
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How to Identify a Hibiscus Hibiscus is a broad-spectrum genus of spectacular flowering shrubs, trees, and ground cover plants. The reason why I call it broad-spectrum is that within the ...
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Siberian Elm vs. Chinese Elm What’s the difference? The only thing that’s the same between these two trees is that they both have trunks and green leaves! Both of these ...
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How to Identify a Japanese Yew The Japanese Yew (Taxus cuspidata) is a native of not only Japan but also Russia, China, and Korea. This tree is technically a conifer ...
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What Does a Juniper Tree Look Like? Juniper Identification Guide Junipers are among the most diverse naturally occurring aromatic tree species in the Northern hemisphere. Ideally suited to thriving in ...
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How to identify a Juniper bonsai The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has divided the United States into nine different temperature zones through zone 2–10. Each zone’s temperature is ...
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