| Description | A popular landscape plant for warmer hardiness zones that is also used as an indoor plant. |
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| Pronunciation | (FAT-see-uh)(juh-PON-ih-kuh) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Indoor Foliage |
| Hardiness Zone | 7-10 |
| Sunlight | bright to moderate |
| Moisture | evenly moist |
| Growing Media | average house, slightly acid |
| Temperature | can tolerate cooler temperatures |
| Flowers | white, borne on long stalks in tight clusters followed by glossy dark berries, seldom if ever will flower in indoor culture |
| Leaves | The main feature is the large bold leaves they are: simple, alternate, star shaped, serrated, deeply lobed with 7-9 lobes, palmately veined and can reach 12 inches. |
| Dimensions | As a landscape plant 8 feet tall by 4 foot spread. As an indoor plant size will depend on the growing conditions. |
| Maintenance | Mature plants will loose bottom leaves. Cut back by half, above a node in the spring to create side shoots to fill in the bare spaces. Pinch growing tips to induce a fuller plant. |
| Propagation | seeds, semi- hardwood cuttings |
| Native Site | Native to Japan hence the species name japonica |
| Misc Facts | Aralia japonica |
| Notes & Reference | #02-Exotic Plant Manual (Alfred Byrd Graf), #70-Indoor Plants (Courtuer and Clark),#158-Plantepedia (Maggie Stuckey) |
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