Flowering Tea Crabapple Bonsai Tree
(malus hupenensis)

Flowering crabapples are one of the best flowering trees for bonsai. They produce beautiful white and pink fragrant flowers covering the entire tree in early spring before the foliage appears. The foliage is small and lobed. Little green palmes (apples) appear in summer, derived from the enlargement of the entire flower which becomes fleshy. The fruit ripens to all different colors in the fall when the foliage begins to turn to shades of yellow, orange and red. Winter brings a nice twiggy skeletal outline punctuated by the fruit which persists throughout the winter. They are easy to grow and quite pest and disease resistent. Deciduous. Keep outdoors.