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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| image = Rice_Paper_Plant-Fitch.jpg
| name = ''Tetrapanax papyrifer''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Apiales]]
| familia = [[Araliaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Aralioideae]]
| genus = '''''Tetrapanax'''''
| genus_authority = ([[Karl Koch (botanist)|K.Koch]]) [[Karl Koch (botanist)|K.Koch]]
| species = '''''T. papyrifer'''''
| binomial = ''Tetrapanax papyrifer''
| binomial_authority = ([[William Jackson Hooker|Hook.]]) [[Karl Koch (botanist)|K.Koch]]
}}
'''''Tetrapanax papyrifer''''' ('''Tung-tsau''' or '''Rice-paper Plant''') is an evergreen [[shrub]] in the family [[Araliaceae]], the sole species in the genus '''''Tetrapanax'''''. It is [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] to [[Taiwan]], but also widely cultivated elsewhere in eastern [[Asia]]. 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, each lobe usually secondarily lobulate. It spreads extensively by sprouts from the [[root]] system underground.
The [[flower]]s are produced in a large umbel at the apex of the stem, each flower with 4-5 small white petals. The [[fruit]] is a small [[drupe]].
The [[pith]] from the stem is used to make a substance commonly known as [[rice paper]], but more properly termed [[pith paper]].
The species was once included in the genus ''[[Fatsia]]'' as ''Fatsia papyrifera''.
==External links==
* [http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/Tetrap_exhibit/ChineseBotanicals.html Chinese Botanical Paintings, ''Tetrapanax papyriferum'' (Hook.) Koch]
[[Category:Araliaceae]]
| color = lightgreen
| image = Rice_Paper_Plant-Fitch.jpg
| name = ''Tetrapanax papyrifer''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Apiales]]
| familia = [[Araliaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Aralioideae]]
| genus = '''''Tetrapanax'''''
| genus_authority = ([[Karl Koch (botanist)|K.Koch]]) [[Karl Koch (botanist)|K.Koch]]
| species = '''''T. papyrifer'''''
| binomial = ''Tetrapanax papyrifer''
| binomial_authority = ([[William Jackson Hooker|Hook.]]) [[Karl Koch (botanist)|K.Koch]]
}}
'''''Tetrapanax papyrifer''''' ('''Tung-tsau''' or '''Rice-paper Plant''') is an evergreen [[shrub]] in the family [[Araliaceae]], the sole species in the genus '''''Tetrapanax'''''. It is [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] to [[Taiwan]], but also widely cultivated elsewhere in eastern [[Asia]]. 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, each lobe usually secondarily lobulate. It spreads extensively by sprouts from the [[root]] system underground.
The [[flower]]s are produced in a large umbel at the apex of the stem, each flower with 4-5 small white petals. The [[fruit]] is a small [[drupe]].
The [[pith]] from the stem is used to make a substance commonly known as [[rice paper]], but more properly termed [[pith paper]].
The species was once included in the genus ''[[Fatsia]]'' as ''Fatsia papyrifera''.
==External links==
* [http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/Tetrap_exhibit/ChineseBotanicals.html Chinese Botanical Paintings, ''Tetrapanax papyriferum'' (Hook.) Koch]
[[Category:Araliaceae]]