The Dwarf Pomegranate, Punica granatum var. nana is a very popular and admired tree in bonsai, for both its fruiting and flowering qualities. Every aspect of this form is dwarf compared to the basic pomegranate, from its overall size to its finer leaves and smaller flowers and fruits. Due to this, it is a plant especially recommended for miniature bonsai and small styles. Apart from the pomegranate’s stunning seasonal yellow-orange ‘trumpet style’ flowers, it presents so many other notable characteristics. It has a marvelous naturally-twisting style trunk, that very easily adopts a gnarled, ancient appearance, something widely sought in bonsai. Its leaves are a dark green with shades of bronze and after flowering, the plant fruits, producing attractive spherical-like red golf-ball sized pomegranates. Suited to bonsai styles such as informal upright, forest, cascade, literati, tree on rock, root over rock, twin trunk, windswept, group and twisting trunk style, this plant responds well to hot, sunny conditions, such as that which would be found in the Mediterranean.