Arborist Clark Leavitt with the “living-in-the-ground bonsai,” or silver buttonwood tree, at Ala Moana Beach Park. He selected the “silver­iest” of them and had them potted up into larger individual ...
A native tree that wouldn’t look out of place on a windy mountaintop, buttonwood grows with twists and turns and gnarls that make it look like an ancient windswept sentinel. Buttonwood (Conocarpus ...