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Starting Your Bonsai Hobby Are you at all creative. Since the leaves look like flowers, the plant is commonly called leaf flower. It has highly colored foliage that makes it a favorite with gardeners. In fact, such has been the craze for this Japanese plant that today it faces extinction on most of the islands where it grew. But in this period it has literally been stripped from its natural surroundings and planted in homes as bonsai tree for sale. Shimpaku Juniper, which is popularly known as “The Smoke of the Volcano” due to its powerful swirling trunk, was discovered barely a century ago. The exposed roots and the strength of the trunk give it an ancient look.

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