It is a Fukien tea bonsai.
Scientific name: Ehretia microphylla (syn. Carmona retusa).
A small, woody, evergreen shrub commonly trained as a bonsai. It has a gnarled, gray-brown to tan trunk with rough, fissured bark and many short, twiggy branches. The leaves are small, glossy, dark green, and usually obovate to spatulate, often about 1–3 cm long, with rounded tips, slightly wavy or shallowly toothed margins, and a distinctive pebbled or dotted surface texture. New shoots are slender and pale green to brownish. When mature and healthy, it may produce small, star-shaped white flowers with five petals, followed by tiny round berries that turn green, yellow-orange, red, and eventually dark as they ripen..
Fukien tea bonsai can flower indoors if given enough bright light; the small white blossoms may later form tiny berry-like fruits on the same miniature tree..
The plant appears to be a small woody bonsai with dense clusters of very small, glossy, dark green leaves. The leaves show a bumpy, dotted surface and slightly scalloped or toothed margins, which are key visual traits of Fukien tea. Its twiggy growth habit and rough, miniature trunk are also typical of Fukien tea bonsai sold as indoor bonsai. Similar bonsai plants such as Chinese elm or boxwood can have small leaves, but Chinese elm leaves are thinner and more clearly serrated, while boxwood leaves are smoother and more oval with less of the distinctive speckled surface.
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