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| name = ''Tetrapanax papyrifer''
|familia=Araliaceae
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|genus=Tetrapanax
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|species=papyrifer
| high = ? <!--- 1m (3 ft) -->
|common_name=Rice-paper Plant
| wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
| origin = [[Taiwan]]
|habit=shrub
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| lifespan = <!--- perennial, annual, etc -->
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| color = IndianRed
|flower_season=early fall, mid fall, late fall
| image = Rice_Paper_Plant-Fitch.jpg
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|flowers=white
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|image=Rice_Paper_Plant-Fitch.jpg
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'''''Tetrapanax papyrifer''''' ('''Tung-tsau''' or '''Rice-paper Plant''') is an evergreen [[shrub]] in the family [[Araliaceae]], the sole species in the genus '''''Tetrapanax'''''{{wp}}.
'''''Tetrapanax papyriferus''''' ('''Tung-tsau''' or '''Rice-paper Plant''') is an [[evergreen]] [[shrub]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Araliaceae]], the sole [[species]] in the [[genus]] '''''Tetrapanax'''''. Its [[botanical name]] is unusual in that its [[specific epithet]] varies from one source to another, sometimes being rendered as "papyriferum" or "papyrifer". It is [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] to [[Taiwan]], but widely [[cultivated]] in [[East Asia]] and sometimes in other [[tropical]] regions as well.* <ref> George W. Staples and Derral R. Herbst. 2005. "A Tropical Garden Flora". Bishop Museum Press: Honolulu, HI, USA. </ref>
The [[pith]] from the stem is used to make a substance commonly known as [[rice paper]], but more properly termed [[pith paper]].
It grows to 3-7 m tall, with usually unbranched stems 2 cm diameter bearing a rosette of large [[leaf|leaves]] at the top (superficially similar to a [[Arecaceae|palm]] crown). The leaves are carried on 40-60 cm petioles, the leaf blade orbicular, 30-50 cm across, deeply palmately lobed with 5-11 primary lobes, the central lobes larger and Y-forked near the end. It spreads extensively by sprouts from the [[root]] system underground. The [[inflorescence]] is a large [[panicle]] of hemispherical to globular [[umbel]]s near the end of the stem. The [[flowers]] have 4 or 5 small white petals. The [[fruit]] is a small [[drupe]].
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Fatsia japonica, Decne. & Planch., remains in that genus, as treated on page 1204.
Fatsia japonica, Decne. & Planch., remains in that genus, as treated on page 1204.
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Fatsia papyrifera, Benth. & Hook. (Aralia papyrifera, Hook. Tetrapanax papyriferum, Koch.). Height 5-7ft. (according to Franceschi, 20 ft. in the open ground in S. Calif.): branches and young lvs. covered with stellate, more or less deciduous down: mature lvs. reaching 1 ft. long, cordate, 5-7-lobed; lobes acute, serrate; sinus very deep :fls. inconspicuous,white, in sessile,globose clusters.
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