| Scientific Name: | Polyscias fruticosa |
| Common Name: | Ming aralia |
| Family Name: | Araliaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant, Medicinal plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lustrous, Odd-pinnate, Tripinnate, Lanceolate, Oblong, Ovate, Dentate, Lacerate, Spinose |
| Flowers: | Umbel, Green-yellow |
| Fruit: | Drupe, White, Green |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves pinnately compound, 15-30cm long. most with 3-7 leaflets, ovate to lanceolate, 5-12cm long x 1-5cm wide, margins toothed with narrow points, glossy dark green (variegated cvs.). | |