Fatsia japonica
| Habit | shrub
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| Height: | ⇕ | 6 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6. to 12 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12. |
| Width: | ⇔ | 6 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6. to 12 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12. |
| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Origin: | ✈ | S Japan |
| Bloom: | ❀ | early summer, mid summer, late summer, early fall, mid fall, late fall |
| Exposure: | ☼ | sun, part-sun |
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| Features: | ✓ | evergreen, flowers |
| Minimum Temp: | ☃ | -15°C5 °F <br />258.15 K <br />464.67 °R <br /> |
| USDA Zones: | 8 to 11 | |
| Flower features: | ❀ | white |
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Fatsia japonica (Fatsi or Japanese Aralia; syn. Aralia japonica Thunb., A. sieboldii Hort. ex K.Koch) is a species of Fatsia, native to southern Japan.
It is an evergreen shrub growing to 3-6 m tall, with stout, sparsely branched stems. The leaves are spirally-arranged, large, 20-50 cm in width and on a petiole up to 50 cm long, leathery, palmately lobed, with 7-9 broad lobes, divided to half or two-thirds of the way to the base of the leaf; the lobes are edged with coarse, blunt teeth. The flowers are small, white, borne in dense terminal compound umbels in late autumn or early winter, followed by small black fruit.
It is commonly grown as an ornamental plant in warm temperate regions where winters do not fall below about -15°C.
Read about Fatsia japonica in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Fatsia japonica, Decne. & Planch. (Aralia japonica, Thunb., not Hort.? A. Sieboldii, Hort.). Lvs. downy at first, finally shining green: fls. in umbels. Japan, China.—Abroad are cult, forms with white or golden margins and a form reticulated with gold markings. Var. Moseri, Hort., is regarded as an improved, more compact-growing variety which originated with Moser of Fontainebleau.CH
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Species
Fatsia japonica (syn. Aralia japonica Thunb., A. sieboldii Hort. ex K.Koch)
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Fruiting body
A small Fatsia japonica leaf
Close-up of flower umbel
References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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