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Fruits. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 8–9 m tall, free-standing, or clinging to the trunks of other trees as an epiphyte.The leaves are palmately compound, with 7–9 leaflets, the leaflets 9–20 cm long and 4–10 cm broad (though often smaller in cultivation) with a wedge-shaped base, entire margin, and an obtuse or acute apex, sometimes emarginate.
In cultivation, it needs a lot of light and humidity. The soil should dry out between watering. This plant has little branching and is sensitive to the appearance of mealybugs. Under the name Schefflera elegantissima, this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [4] [5]
Schefflera / ˈ ʃ ɛ f l ər ə / [1] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with 13 species native to New Zealand and some Pacific islands. [2]The genus is named in honor of Johann Peter Ernst von Scheffler [], physician and botanist of Gdańsk, and later of Warsaw, who contributed plants to Gottfried Reyger [] for Reyger's book, Tentamen Florae Gedanensis.
Schefflera menglaensis H.Chu & H.Wang (1990) Schefflera polypyrena C.J.Tseng & G.Hoo (1965) Heptapleurum brevipedicellatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae which is native to southern China (southern Yunnan and western Guangxi ) and northern Vietnam .
Heptapleurum actinophyllum (formerly Schefflera actinophylla) is a tree in the family Araliaceae. [1] [2] It is native to tropical rainforests and gallery forests in northern and northeastern Queensland coasts and the Northern Territory of Australia, as well as New Guinea and Java.
Heptapleurum taiwanianum (syn. Schefflera taiwaniana, 台湾鹅掌柴) [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, native to Taiwan, where it is scattered throughout coniferous forests at 2,000–3,000 m (6,600–9,800 ft). [3] Growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall by 2.5 m (8.2 ft) broad, it is an evergreen shrub or small tree.
At lower elevations in both primary and secondary forest it is also the second most (after Dracontomelon dao), or most, respectively, dominant understory plant, but it occurs at lower densities. On less diverse, more heavily degraded land however, it is even more dominant, occurring at up to 25% of the forest cover.
Heptapleurum calyptratum, commonly known as mallet flower, is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae. It is a scrambling tree that ranges from eastern India and Bangladesh through Tibet and Indochina to southern China.