Botanicals

Mini Bonsai Trees

Three tiny trees with more clever parts tricks than sets three times their size.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 10373 · 2025

Pieces709

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Year2025

Set number10373

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The verdict

This is the LEGO Botanicals theme at its most quietly clever, three little trees (ginkgo, black pine, and wisteria) that hide Wolverine claws as pine needles and butterflies as leaves.

I fell for how endlessly swappable it all is, because the foliage and the pedestals mix and match into dozens of arrangements. The price is the sticking point, since 709 pieces for a fast build and a small footprint asks a lot for what you get. If you love the parts nerdery and want something you can rearrange on a shelf forever, it earns its keep.

Best for: Botanicals fans who love spotting the clever part swaps and rearranging a display

The full review

What it is

The thing that got me about this set is how much cleverness LEGO packed into three trees you could cup in your hands. Mini Bonsai Trees gives you a ginkgo, a black pine, and a wisteria, each around 19cm tall, and each arriving in its own bag with its own instruction booklet. That structure alone makes it feel generous, because you are really building three small models back to back rather than one long slog. Designer Theo Bonner, who also did the Tiny Plants and the Chrysanthemum, clearly had fun here, and it shows in every branch. The black pine in particular won me over, with its needles made from dark green claw pieces bristling out in a way that genuinely reads as pine.

The catch

I will be honest with you about the price, because it is the one place this set stumbles. At 64.99 USD for 709 pieces, the math looks fine on paper, and technically the price per piece is reasonable. But so much of that count is tiny foliage and repeated little elements, so the build goes quick (roughly 20 to 30 minutes per tree) and the finished trio takes up very little shelf. Some builders raised the wisteria as the weak link, its flowers coming out sparse and oddly spaced, though one commenter pointed out that a wisteria in early spring really does look like that. The ginkgo can read a bit thin too. None of this is a dealbreaker, but it is why I would wait for a discount if the sticker gives you pause.

Who it's for

This one is for the person who loves the Botanicals line for its ingenuity, not just its looks. If you get a little thrill from realizing those are Wolverine claws standing in for pine needles, or butterflies posing as leaves, you will grin the whole way through. It is also a lovely shared build, easy enough to hand a booklet to someone and build alongside them. If you want a big statement centerpiece or crave complex engineering, this is not that set, and you might find the small scale underwhelming. But as a fiddly, rearrangeable little collection of trees, it is a delight.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building it follows a calm, repeating rhythm across all three trees: base, roots, trunk, branches, then foliage. It never gets technically demanding, which is part of the charm, it is the kind of build you do with a cup of tea and no pressure. The smartest touch is the handlebar-style branches that let the foliage clusters float and pivot, so nothing locks into one arrangement. Because all three trees share identical connection points, you can pull the leaves off one and pop them onto another, and swap the trees between the high and low pedestals. Reviewers counted something like 27 display combinations once you factor it all in.

For parts collectors this is a quiet treasure chest. It brings 72 dark green bladed claw elements (yes, Wolverine claws) used as pine needles, and 36 flame yellowish orange butterflies standing in as leaves, both in quantities that far outstrip any set that came before. There are seven recolored elements too, including a yellow 4x3 plant leaf appearing in that color for the first time, plus bright pink sunflower flowers and dark tan branch pieces. And keep an eye out for the olive frog tucked inside the tallest wooden stand, a wink at the original 10281 Bonsai Tree and its famous pink frogs.

Fun facts

01It was designed by Theo Bonner, the same designer behind the Tiny Plants and the Chrysanthemum Botanicals sets.
02A single olive frog is hidden inside the tallest wooden display stand, a nod to the original 10281 Bonsai Tree, which famously used 100 pink frogs as its blossoms.
03The pine needles are actually 72 dark green Wolverine-style bladed claw pieces, and the leaves on another tree are 36 orange butterfly elements, both in record numbers for a single set.
04The three trees share identical connection points, so their foliage and pedestals mix and match into roughly 27 different display arrangements.