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Aberael

I have decided to undertake a bonsai project. What I want to do is amass a large collection of trees with black or very dark red/green foliage.
Here is where I ask for help:
I only know of a few trees with dark leaves and I was wondering if helpful people here could give suggestions of trees with dark foliage.
Ones I already know of are:
- Purple leafed Birch (own) (is this aka Black birch?)
- After Dark (Australian native, Agonis flexuosa. Plan to buy in near future)
- Cherry plum (own)

What I'm unsure of:
- I think there is another Birch/Alder behind my property with dark leaves. Will look into that.
- An ash tree around here has maroon leaves. Hard to get but.

But thats the extent of my knowledge. Anyone got anything to add to the list?

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GrumbleGuts

Brachychiton populneus a bottle tree variety has quite dark leaves. Ficus natalensis has quite dark leaves for a ficus, I've heard the carob tree also has dark leaves, although I've never seen one. Also indian arrowroot euonymus has purple leaves but not too dark. Unsure how dark you want. However, if you want really dark, you can use paint. lol. Or you could try killing a tree, I understand brown is fairly dark.

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Cathie

Fagus sylvatica purpurea and F. syl. torulosa purpurea.

Aberael

excellent. I'll look into those

Grumbleguts: I'm aiming for as close to black as I can =)

jfecme

There's a Norway maple cultivar, Crimson King, which has almost black leaves.

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