it looks to me like a variegated plant also ...

whats your history with this plant??? ... have you seen a new flush of leaves before??? ... perhaps they bud out variegated.. and then green up over the season ???

ken

could we have a pic of the whole ....

and i dont understand what you mean with an almost 7 foot bonsai?????

there is a bonsai forum ..... if you fail here ...

ken

I agree about the variegation, which could be quite natural, but would like better description or more detail on the white on the branch...that doesn't look quite right. Does it have a texture? Is it located anywhere else on the plant besides that one photo location? And it doesn't rub off at all?

And what the heck is an organic Sumo cake? Is this plant in a container or planted in the ground?

Sumo cake, organic

Ok, Sumo cakes are organic fertilzer for bonsai

The leaves belong to an outside located Brazilian Rain Tree BONSAI . Its a big bonsai tree located in S Florida. Its 70 inches tall. Those leaves are not meant to be variegated but just simply green. Now a few new leaves came out like that and there is no real texture to it by touching it, its inside the leave. The few "infected" leaves are at total different places , so its not only happening in their immediate surroundings. In the bonsai world nobody has seen it happening on this specie. Its weird. Very weird. However I wanted to shout it out, there maybe somebody who has seen something similar. This specie does not have variegated leaves. I asked a bonsai guy in Brazil who has a bunch of those. The story of the tree is I just bought it 6 weeks ago and it sits in the sun where it belongs. Afternoon it sits in shade. Half of the tree has more yellowish leaves, looks like Chlorosis what I am treating now. Its a deficiency

BTW sorry I never got notification that I received all those responds