A woody plant native to East Asia, the japanese maple features hand-shaped leaves with five-pointed lobes that resemble the palm of a hand. It has been cultivated for millennia in Japan for bonsai creation. Extracts from the branches and leaves of this plant are used as medicine in Chinese traditional medicine.

The kousa dogwood is known for its ornamental appeal. The showy flowers and bark, as well as the lovely fall foliage, make this vase-shaped tree a great addition to your patio, yard, or lawn. The tree matures to about 9 m high and is often just as wide.

Ficus carica, colloquially known as the common fig, is a deciduous small tree or shrub widely known for its sweet, chewy fruits. This shrubby plant has a very, very long cultivation history. The earliest evidence of its cultivation was found in the Jordan Valley and go all the way back to the tenth millennium BC.

The japanese emperor oak is a deciduous tree with very large leaves. It is frequently found in gardens and pruned to keep its appeal. In Japan, the people use the leaves to wrap a sweet treat called Kashiwa mochi during the celebration of Children’s Day.

Albizia julibrissin, colloquially known as persian silk tree, is a deciduous plant with characteristic pink, fuzzy inflorescences. Persian silk tree is mainly cultivated for decorative purposes. Its flowers have a mild, sweet smell and are often visited by butterflies, bees and hummingbirds.

While the black locust may have a bad reputation in many areas of the US due to its opportunistic and rapid growth, there are benefits to this tree. The black locust is an important food source for honey bees and is a good choice for windbreaks since it grows so quickly (91 to 122 cm per year). Its wood also resists rot, so it is used in fenceposts. The plant is highly toxic, though, and should never be consumed.

Fullmoon maple (Acer japonicum) is a species of maple tree native to Japan and South Korea. It rarely grows more than 10 m tall. Fullmoon maple has found favor as a North American and European ornamental plant. In autumn, the leaves change to a dark red or bright orange before they fall.

Ermans birke is a deciduous tree that reaches heights of growth between 4 and 12 meters. Rarely, specimens can reach extreme values of up to 20 meters. The bark is yellow-white and rolling. The bark of young branches is bald, but with glandular warts and orange in color. The stalked leaves are broadly ovate.

Japanese red cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) is a tree native to Japan. Japanese red cedar has a notable fragrant and aesthetically pleasing color. Commercially, japanese red cedar is used for wooden construction materials for interior design. It can also be grown as a bonsai.

The seed of the deciduous japanese horse-chestnut tree contains a lot of saponin, which is a bitter, poisonous substance. This tree species is used as an ornamental and is often found in deciduous forests, especially among moist slopes. The flowers are yellow and white and bloom from early to mid-summer.

It is a medium-sized deciduous tree 15 to 30 m tall, with slate grey bark. The leaves are large, 16 to 38 cm (rarely to 50 cm) long and 9 to 20 cm (rarely 25 cm) broad, leathery, green above, silvery or greyish pubescent below, and with an acute apex. The flowers are also large, cup-shaped, 15 to 20 cm diameter. The fruit is an oblong-cylindric aggregate of follicles 12 to 20 cm long and 6 cm broad, bright pinkish red.

The Quercus mongolica is native to Japan, China, Korea, Mongolia and Siberia. It provides useful timber since the tree can grow to be 30 m tall. The mongolian oak is commonly used in furniture and finishing lumber. It's drought-tolerant but does prefer moist, well-drained soils.

Petal color: Pale red to purplish-red. Flower shape: single-flowered petal. The flower size: medium to large. Tree shape: oval. The diameter of the flower is 3 to 4.5 cm. The color is pale red, but it is darker than the white species (such as Yoshino cherry, etc.). Cerasus jamasakura is a deciduous tree, 7 to 15 m high. It can grow to about 20 m. The branches grow near the base, and the length of branches ranges from 7 to 15 m. The leaves are long oval and serrated. They range in size from 8 to 15 cm and are alternate. The new leaves are red, but turn dark green in summer. In autumn, leaves will become red, not only red but also other colors, such as yellow and orange. The leaves have little or no hair. The back of the leaves is green and lusterless. In summer, the fruit turns dark purple. The fruit is just the size of a small pea. Birds often look for food in this way, but they are not consumed for humans because they are small and inconspicuous.

Japanese bird cherry is a deciduous tree of Rosaceae. Its Japanese name comes from the grooved board used in ancient tortoise shell divination. It can be distinguished from the similar Inu cherry, its inflorescence branches with leaves.

The slow-growing heartleaf hornbeam is a deciduous tree whose timber is often used to make furniture and agricultural tools. Found in the wild on moist slopes, it is now cultivated in gardens as a hedge or screen. Heartleaf hornbeam is noted for its rough bark and heart-shaped leaves, which is thought to give rise to its common name.

The flowering period is slightly late that it begins around the beginning of spring. The color of the flowers is from pale red to white. The more you look into the core of the flower the darker the color. The size of the flower is medium or small with a diameter of 2 to 3 cm. When the flowers bloom the leaves open as well. As a tree it does not grow huge roughly the size of small or medium trees. The maximum height is 5 to 10 m. In typical cases of Japanese alpine cherry the hairs grow near the stems of leaves and calyx of flowers but this species does not have this characteristic. Alternate leaves and broadly elliptic. The top of the leaf extends out like a tail. The edges are uneven. Leaves turn red and fall in autumn.

Japanese chestnut is a medium-sized chestnut tree that has been used in plant-disease resistance research due to its resistance to chestnut blight and ink disease. An important nut crop, the plant grows in the foothills of Japan and Korea, where the nuts are enjoyed as a sweet snack.

The weeping habit and distinct foliage of needle juniper make it a popular ornamental in gardens. This conifer is often found on the grounds of temples in Japan, which gives rise to its common name of Temple Juniper. Needle juniper is fairly tolerant to pollution and, interestingly, often cultivated as a bonsai subject.

It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant growing to 40 cm tall with a rigid stem with two large (20 cm diameter) palmately lobed leaves at the top and small membraneous leaves lower on the stem. The flower is produced singly at the top of the stem, 8 cm diameter, with four pink to pale purple (rarely white) petaloid sepals, numerous stamens and two carpels. The fruit is a cluster of follicles.

Hiba (Thujopsis dolabrata) is a medium to large evergreen tree native to central Japan. This species grows best in moist forested areas. Hiba is also called elkhorn cedar and deerhorn cedar. This species is not drought tolerant and grows best when protected from the wind. Its latin name Thujopsis dolabrata means hatchet-shaped and references the shape of its leaves.