Scientific Name: Polyscias balfouriana
Common Name: Balfour aralia
Family Name: Araliaceae
Origin: Australia / New Zealand
Hardiness Zone: Zone 11: (above 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - vertical, Vase
Texture: Very coarse
Landscape Uses: Indoor plant
Exposure: Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Trifoliate (ternate), Elliptic, Reniform, Crenate, Serrulate
Flowers: Umbel, White
Fruit: Purple, Black
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate with long petioles, broadly elliptic to reniform, about 15cm long x 10cm wide, apex rounded, base cordate, (may also form tripinnately compound leaves with similar leaflets as plants mature).