View source for Polyscias fruticosa

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Polyscias fruticosa, Harms (Panax fruticosum, Linn. Aralia fruticosa, Hort. Nothopanax fruticosum, Miq. Panax excelsum, Hort., at least in part). Fig. 3113. Erect shrub, to 6 or 8 ft. high, glabrous, the young branches with prominent lenticels: lvs. more or less irregularly pinnately 3-compound, the petiole and rachis more or less spotted, and the petiole-base expanded and clasping; lfts. stalked, with the segms. also stalked and parted or cut into narrow-ovate or oblong or lanceolate ultimate segms. with scariously spinulose-toothed margins and very acute apices, the whole If. having a much-divided soft appearance: infl. terminal and in the upper axils, 3-6 in. long and many-fld., the fls. umbellate and short-pedicelled: fr. broad-ovoid, compressed, more than 1 in. long. Polynesia to India, commonly cult, and in many lf.-forms. In some cases the lvs. are much cut and the segms. are reduced to very narrow even to linear or thread-like forms. Var. plumata, Bailey (Panax plumatum, Hort. Nothopanax fruticosum var. plumatum, Merr.), has smaller lvs., 8 in. or less long, the ultimate segms. much smaller and finer and mostly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. See also Panax Deleauanum, suppl. list, p. 2748.

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