| Scientific Name: | Fatsia japonica |
| Common Name: | fatsia |
| Family Name: | Araliaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen, Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Round, Vase |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Indoor plant, Mixed shrub border, Specimen plant, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Spiraled, Leathery, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Oblong, Orbicular, Cleft (parted), Palmately lobed, Serrulate, Sinuate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Umbel, White, Nov-Dec |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Black, Apr-May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Large evergreen shrub 3-5m tall; leaves alternate, orbicular, most 20-40cm wide, leathery, lustrous dark green, and palmately veined, 7-11 lobes with very deep sinuses, margin serrate, base cordate, petioles 10-30cm long; umbels 3-6cm wide, arranged in a panicle-like inflorescence, Nov-Dec.; berries 5-7mm wide, maturing purplish-black in spring (may not form after a cold winter). | |