Fuku-Bonsai Cultural Center


It's as if the ambitions of David Fukumoto have been continually cut back by fate – including an alleged $30 million pesticide disaster and severe Hurricane Lane damage in 2018 – reshaping his dreams into a miniature version of what might have been. The showroom is in a rebuilding phase, but he is ever optimistic, passionate and eager to display several impressive specimens of the center's commercial focus: the dwarf schefflera indoor bonsai.

Turn south off Hwy 11 at Olaʻa Rd between Miles 9 and 10.


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