Scientific Name: Eleutherococcus sieboldianus
Common Name: five-fingered aralia, five-leaf aralia
Family Name: Araliaceae
Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 2 - 3m x 2 - 3m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Round
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Mixed shrub border
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Obovate, Dentate
Flowers: Umbel, White, Green, May-Jun
Fruit: Berry (true), Dark-red, Black, Jul-Aug
Key ID Features:
Leaves palmately compound (reminiscent of Virginia creeper), with a single spiny stipule at most nodes, umbels of small inconspicuous greenish-white florets in spring, berries on pollinated female plants dark-red ripening black.